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Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy: What do I need to know

enough

06:46 / 23.03.02

Without ***spoiling*** the ending (if there is one) Are there any useful bits of information you kind people can provide me with?
Thanks.

Nietzsch E. Coyote

09:39 / 23.03.02

Well I won't spoil the ending... but there is an ending.

Where are you in the "trilogy"?

Not Here Still

10:42 / 23.03.02

There's a glossary at the back of my copy.

Other useful information: Robert Anton Wilson is taking the piss again, (scientifically)

Our Lady of The Two Towers

10:42 / 23.03.02

Hit's the ground limping. Doesn't fully develop a number of ideas (characters retaining awareness across novels, characters changing sex between novels) and everything seems to rely on whether the President of the US being paranoid or liberal.

Rev. Jesse

14:35 / 23.03.02

Illumanitus! is better.

If you have not read it, read it.

The Floater
(prev. Yagg is Never Coming Back)

21:00 / 23.03.02

I liked "Illuminatus" and "Masks" better than the cat.

By the time I got to the end of Schroedinger's Cat, it had seemed to become the story of a globetrotting, disembodied penis. Of course, I meant to go back and reread it, because I'm SURE I was missing something in there...

Lionheart

12:25 / 24.03.02

Not really. That's what it all comes down to.

Tuna Ghost takes rad lessons

12:39 / 24.03.02

Actually, yeah, that is the main story. And you should definately read Illuminatus! first. There are references that you won't get otherwise.

All in all, I really enjoyed it as a massive novel-project book. It was the first RAW I had read, so it was an experience.

The Floater
(prev. Yagg is Never Coming Back)

05:29 / 25.03.02

The first RAW can be quite an experience. I probably wouldn't even be here if I hadn't finally bought Illuminatus a few years back...

(does doubletake)

Now WAIT a minute. You mean, it really WAS the Tale of the Globetrotting Wang?

Ah, that Guerilla Ontology will get you every time.

[ 25-03-2002: Message edited by: Yagg ]

Wrecks City-Zen

19:49 / 29.03.02

Yeah, I read ILLUMINATUS!! which confused ma @ first but what a fantaslic fucking read...*SIGH*

Honestly, what is missing in this book is Robert Shea. I have a feeling he was more of the guiding force of this duo.

I do rather enjoy Joe Malik being a woman as was foreshadowed in ILLUMINATUS!!

Our Lady of The Two Towers

10:30 / 30.03.02

I'm not sure of Shea's role in 'Illuminatis!', from reading some of Wilson's other stuff it seems like he was the main mover in writing it, it is based on his James Joyce obsession after all. Does anyone know what Shea actually did? Was he researcher guy, Giles to Wilson's Buffy (god, that's an image I didn't want at this time in the morning)?

Lionheart

23:49 / 30.03.02

From what I've heard is that She and Wilson took turns writing parts of the book and then they re-wrote each others parts.

Gek

00:54 / 31.03.02

<: THERE ARE SEVERAL ENDINGS :>

Wrecks City-Zen

00:37 / 04.04.02

Lionheart, aren't YOU Robert Anton Wilson???

tSuibhne

21:52 / 09.04.02

I interpreted the book as a series of interwoven short stories, where we get to peak into different realities to see how the charecters turned out.

Though that might have been my lack of knowledge of RAW (it was my first book as well) and that my only knowlodge of Schrodinger's Cat at the time was the idea that a new universe is created with each decision.

So, the charecters didn't just randomly change sexes, but instead you were peeking into the universe that was created when the sex of the baby was determined.

Does this make sense? It's been years since I read the book.

Lionheart

21:03 / 28.04.02

Rex Zen: No. I'm Grant Morrison. Maybe I was Robert Anton Wilson in my past life.

"Uh... Lionheart... Robert Anton Wilson is still alive."

Is he? Well, then... Where's my gun?

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