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Robert Anton Wilson: Beyond Conspiracy Theory (RE/Search #18) QUOTES

Robert Anton Wilson: Beyond Conspiracy Theory (RE/Search #18) QUOTES

1 " You asked me what linguistics I find most pernicious. I started with "is". The "either/or" habit is very pernicious. It seems very pernicious to me, I mean. Two-valued situations are relatively rare, actually. "

― V. Vale , Robert Anton Wilson: Beyond Conspiracy Theory (RE/Search #18)

2 " How to evolve? Read my book Prometheus Rising, and do all the exercises in that. There are a lot of exercises. It will keep you busy for at least a year. And if at the end of that year you haven't evolved, write me a letter of complaint, and I'll try to write a better book. "

― V. Vale , Robert Anton Wilson: Beyond Conspiracy Theory (RE/Search #18)

3 " And then, Joyce's experiments with language in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. And Korzybski's Science and Sanity, which encouraged me in my Joycean tendency to suspect that language is full of traps and it's the job of the writer to find his way around the traps in language and not just fall into them. I think there are two types of writers--those who are aware of the traps in language and try to avoid them--not always successfully. We're not all geniuses, we make mistakes. And the second type is those who aren't aware of the traps and fall into them on one page after another. Tucker was aware of that too--the traps in language. So Nietzsche, Tucker, Joyce, and Korzybski have all influenced me to look at language in a peculiar way. I see language as a means of human liberation, potentially--and the main mechanism of human slavery most of the time. It depends on how you use language. "

― V. Vale , Robert Anton Wilson: Beyond Conspiracy Theory (RE/Search #18)

4 " And, if you're wondering what Robert Anton Wilson might say about President Donald Trump in 2019, he already said it on Dutch television in 1999, even deploying a rarely-used 'is' of identity: "Donald Trump is fucking crazy. "

― V. Vale , Robert Anton Wilson: Beyond Conspiracy Theory (RE/Search #18)