Read the Illuminatus! trilogy

[Cain]

And I can't shake off the feeling I had read it before.  Really wierd feeling too.  I couldnt pin it down to any particular page or character, it was just the entire thing.  Like I had read it a long time ago and forgot it all.  Anyone else have this?  And no, I had not taken anything "special" before reading it.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

I did get that feeling from time to time while I was reading that.  He uses psychological devices in his writing that pulls you outside yourself.  That is the only way I know how to describe it, others may describe it differently.  It was really weird, I must say.  I have read a lot of books and I have never read anything like that.  I suspect the confusion in the book clears the mind of the reader as well.

[Cain]

That may be why, it seems to make sense.  The only other time I had that wzs the first time I read the Principia, but since that is so spread out via the internet, I may have actually read it before.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

That may be why, it seems to make sense.  The only other time I had that wzs the first time I read the Principia, but since that is so spread out via the internet, I may have actually read it before.

The first time I came across the PD was on the internet in 1997.  So I know I have had a lot of deja vu feelings from actually having read it before then having it cross my path, again.  Plus, the stuff in the Trilogy is all over the place.  He puts stuff in there form a lot of religions and sects and cults and weirdos and just all kinds of stuff.  So, in a different guise, I have read a lot of that stuff elsewhere.

[Charlemagne]

The trilogy is indeed a very special experience. Everyone should read it.

[East Coast Hustle]

I went pretty much insane for a solid month after I read that book for the first time...

[agent compassion]

I went pretty much insane for a solid month after I read that book for the first time...

What do you mean "went?"  

[East Coast Hustle]

I may be just a bit sociopathic...a tad self-destructive...maybe a little neurotic...but I'm by no means insane...

[agent compassion]

I may be just a bit sociopathic...a tad self-destructive...maybe a little neurotic...

Ah, perfectly normal then.



I'll see your self-destruction and raise you a self-mutilation....

[Malaul]

Im unsane

Its not thatI lost my sanity
I just never had it to loose

[East Coast Hustle]

I'm as normal as they come...and I don't really get into self-mutilation...I prefer to mutilate others...

[Horab Fibslager]

i got the impressiont hat they cut things out of the omnibus ed. that were int eh original. as well with shrodinger's cat.

[Bob the Mediocre]

Im unsane

Its not thatI lost my sanity
I just never had it to loose

Confused me when you said that yesterday, but that makes sense. Have a nice sleep.

[Horab Fibslager]

i'm the sanest person i know.

wtf is that shit eh?

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

i'm the sanest person i know.

wtf is that shit eh?

You hang out with some crazy people, man.  Hey, I resemble that remark, or not or something, Now I'm confused, eh?