Comments on: Robert Anton Wilson 1932-2007

By: io

io — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:37:30 +0000

Keep the lasagna flying!

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By: Mark P. Steele

Mark P. Steele — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:22:50 +0000

Just posted this on the ‘back side’ of the Wikipedia articles on ILLUMINATUS! and Robert Anton Wilson. Some silly thing about me doing the comic creates a conflict of interest if I put the info on the main page myself, I guess —

Art from the comic used in Wilson’s Meme-Orial (SIC) now available on Web

Hi — my myspace profile page — http://www.myspace.com/icarus_23 — now has a slide show of selections of the art from the comic that were displayed around the world during RAW’s Meme-Orial. It started when Wilson’s daughter asked for pictures of him and related to his work for a slde show for her sending off his ashes in a very small boat into the Pacific. I answered, “You want pictures, I’ve got PICTURES!”

After that, I made the art available for others to display at their events. Noteably (there’s that darn word…), the Radio Eris people in Philly printed some out on poster boards that now inhabit their practice room.

More documentation can be found at: http://rawremembered.blogspot.com/

24 July 2007 (UTC)

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By: tom

tom — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:10:41 +0000

Bob’s about as dead as Joyce. Even though I never got the chance to speak to him it don’t matter. Even if they burnt every one of his books, he’s in my headspace now…and forevermore. Isn’t it great people like that exsist?

By: J. Reeves

J. Reeves — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:33:09 +0000

I just discovered news of Mr. Wilson’s death a day after watching a video of a hilarious lecture that he did in Santa Cruz around 1993. Bob Wilson was my first Guru. The universe can be an immensely perplexing , obscure and terrifying place for young seekers of the truth. I discovered Bob Wilson in my early 20’s when my mind was like a highly impressionable pressure cooker. Wilson’s rantings were like a soft warm trustworthy voice that diffused the chill of the mysteries. It was Bob Wilson’s writings that pushed me to academic heights , it was Bob Wilson who inspired me to think for myself and it was Bob Wilson who gave me the courage to face any circumstance from the mundane to the mystical with a confident smirk. I, like so many of his readers, am saddened that I never had a chance to meet “The Bobitar.” I know he is out there making merry with his Beautiful wife Arlen and the Good Dr. Leary in tow. God Bless you Mr. Wilson ! And Thanks.

By: Brummbaer

Brummbaer — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:15:13 +0000

Bob went home, but left us his ball, in fact, all balls and anything, that looks like a ball, or maybe not…
He was one of the funniest and wisest humans I ever met and I have more reasons to miss him than I can put on a page.

Goodbye, Bob, Farewell, Au revoir, Auf Wiedersehn, maybe…!

Brummbaer

Bob’s last message from the 6th of Jan.:

Hi there,

Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.

Please pardon my levity, I don’t see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.

RAW

Three Haikus he sent in the past:

Haiku june 26, 06 12 noon

WU-SHIN

Like Chinese painting
The tree and the fog: Nothing
else outside at all
Feeling better every day
May live another month–or much longer

2 Haikus for the list…

1.
Well what do you know?
Another day had passed
and I’m still not not.

2.
Uncertain Curtain?
I Won’t swallow that Poe. No
curtain’s uncertain.

bob sends his love…

…and some further messages from lately:

I enjoy election day — without taking it literally.
Whether the bandits in Washington predominately call themselves democrats or republicans never changes anything important, and those citizens rushing about to participate in this feast of fools seem pixilated.
I also enjoy Easter without believing in magick eggs, Xmas without believing in elves or Santa, and Halloween without believing men from Mars just landed in New Jersey.

Living among the higher primates has its amusing side.

By: Mark P. Steele

Mark P. Steele — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:33:04 +0000

I had the great honor of meeting both the Bobs while developing the ILLUMINATUS! comic adapatation. While frustrated that the project was never completed in their life times, I am glad that I had the oppurtunity to meet with both these men.
The last time I saw Bob in person was at the Winterstar symposium. I had presented both Bobs with certificates proclaiming them as honorary fifth degree knights of the Falcon of Malta, and we were sitting at the bar watching thr first World Trade Center bombing together…

By: Donnacha DeLong

Donnacha DeLong — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:27:19 +0000

We, few in number but large in spirit(s), woke the great man well and good in London. Hope many others did the same where they were and his spirit got no rest this night. Goodbye Bob, you’ll always be with us.

By: Gurusdji

Gurusdji — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:21:53 +0000

Bob, was a true explorer and great raconteur. I just flashed on some rare but special nights. In the southbay latenight conclaves in a “known” 24 hour coffee shop. Several “gifted” psychics and masters would gather and conclave through the night on all things of import from sex to sealing wax and psychadelics and beyond. Bob, put the coffee on and open that bag o shrooms when we meet again!

Love & Light,
Gurusdji

By: Rev Jimi Freidenker

Rev Jimi Freidenker — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:58:45 +0000

Fliegende kinderscheisse!!

Adios Amigo.

By: RuachFUCK

RuachFUCK — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:03:24 +0000

Rev Bob is dead
Long live Rev Bob

My mind is an opener place, thanx 2 u

Hooray!

By: Marvel

Marvel — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:37:45 +0000

Hello, its great to see how many people were influenced by the GREAT RAW, it gives me hope that there are more intelligent people on the planet than i thought. His ideas are spread over the whole world (i live in Germany and nobody influenced my thinking more than BOB) and will live forever.

REST IN THE HOLY CHAOS ROBERT ANTON WILSON
Lass die Lasagne weiter fliegen!!!!!
Your admirer, fan and son in mind
Martin

By: PRAWNFINGERS

PRAWNFINGERS — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:35:15 +0000

IVE STRUGGLED WITH BEIN A HUMAN BEING FOR ALONG TIME NOW AND THIS GENIUS AND HIS WRITINGS / RAMBLINGS KEPT MY CHIN UP AND GAVE ME HOPE WHEN I THOUGHT THERE WAS NONE.

I LOVE YOU BOB.

RIP RAW.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:55:06 +0000

Just found this site looks amazing:

# ooddaa Says:
January 11th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

Hail Eris!

Thanks, Bob, for all those handy DIY guides to rewiring my brain.

Can anyone point me to this info?
Thanks

By: Perspective1.

Perspective1. — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:17:58 +0000

There are things like iTunes…and MySpace which are *definitively* mainstream.

Then there’s Discordianism and SubGen which are *not*.

In this era of ever increased interconnectivity(the eEra), Bob was Man enough to encompass *all* the possibilities and modes.

(Burning Man is similar)

We are perpetually…his students.

I don’t think that we could endure his energy and…

By: Moe S.

Moe S. — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:47:11 +0000

My friend justifies her opinion this way: She says that in Magical Mystery Tour there is a scene where the band is playing “I Am The Walrus” while dressed as animals. The bassist is playing left handed(as she says Paul would have) and the one dressed as the walrus is playing the piano, ergo the walrus was John. It’s possible I am not relating her story correctly if this is all wrong.

By: Chandira

Chandira — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:33:03 +0000

PS, John says he’s the walrus in one if his later songs, I forget which. But you can buy it at Starbucks right now, for $13.95. ;-)

By: Chandira

Chandira — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:23:04 +0000

Ah, yes, I cried bucketloads when I heard, even though I doubt that was that Bob would have wanted, it just happened. My eyes leaked, and there it was.

Bob likewise was a great inspiration and teacher, and although I didn’t ever get to say ‘hello and thank you’ personally, I’m sure he heard my sobbing, from wherever he is, and he probably laughed his ass off. Good for him.
I know I probably woulnd’t be here today, and still somewhat vaguely sane, if it weren’t for him.

By: standalone13

standalone13 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:12:04 +0000

I was introduced to The Schrodinger’s Cat Triology right after college by a friend of mine and I was awestruck by it. I remember thinking that quite possibly RAW was, like myself, interested in science without having a substantial aptitude for it. Through the passing 12 years since then, I have always enjoyed reading him and I will definitely miss him.