Illuminatus/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


It's a dreadfully long monster of a book, and I certainly won't have time to read it, but I'm giving it a thorough skimming. The authors are utterly incompetent—no sense of style or structure at all. It starts out as a detective story, switches to science-fiction, then goes off into the supernatural, and is full of the most detailed information of dozens of ghastly boring subjects. And the time sequence is all out of order in a very pretentious imitation of Faulkner and Joyce. Worst yet, it has the most raunchy sex scenes, thrown in just to make it sell, I'm sure, and the authors—whom I've never heard of—have the supreme bad taste to introduce real political figures into this mishmash and pretend to be exposing a real conspiracy. You can be sure I won't waste time reading such rubbish.
—Epicene Wildeblood, Meta Guy book critic, The Eye in the Pyramid

Greater Poop: Is Eris true?
Malaclypse The Younger: Everything is true.
Greater Poop: Even false things?
Malaclypse The Younger: Even false things are true.
Greater Poop: How can that be?
Malaclypse The Younger: I don't know, man, I didn't do it.

Interview with Malaclypse the Younger, K.S.C., Greater Metropolitan Yorba Linda Hearald-News-Sun-Tribune-Journal-Dispatch-Post and San Francisco Discordian Society Cabal Bulletin and Intergalactice Report and Poop
—Title quote for The Appendices