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Robert Anton Wilson (1932 -- 2007)

“There is so much mystery and ambiguity about everything, maybe that’s why there’s so much in my novels.  But why else does no one give a straight answer to a child about anything? Everything was lies, hypocrisy, evasion.  I knew there was something going on they were hiding from me, and it used to scare me.  I wasn’t quite sure what it was. It might have something to do with the wolf man, or Frankenstein monster — I didn’t know what the hell it was. And I didn’t trust them at all. At one point, somewhere around 7 or 8, they admitted there was no Santa Claus, and as soon as I recovered from the shock my next thought was, ‘When are they going to admit there’s no God?’ They never did. And I went back to believing in God under the hammering and pounding of the nuns, up until I was about 13, I guess.”—Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson (2003)

Robert Anton Wilson was a comic novelist, scholar, activist and father to four children.Together with his wife Arlen, he challenged the foolish beliefs and politics of his times with a brand of humor and skepticism all his own.