Re: Fiction Books

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 20:41:38 MDT

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    >> Well, I don't know about Shea or Robert A Wilson (though I know Wilson is
    >> supposed to have cryonics sympathies), but Castenda is strictly a bogus
    >> mysticist. I read about all his books when I was much younger, but I
    >> cannot even imagine finding any of his ideas reasonable today.

    Quite so.

    >To quote Robert Anton Wilson,
    >
    >"Reality may not only be weirder than we think, but weirder than we can
    >think."

    Not only stolen by Wilson but mangled. The original famous quip (by J. B.
    S. Haldane decades earlier) was:

    `The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we
    *can* suppose.'

    >"If you think you know what the hell's going on, you're probably full of
    >s***"

    If you think people can turn into birds and balls of light, you're
    *definitely* full of shit.

    Damien Broderick

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