Update

[awesomenick]

1) I have never felt that sick... EVER. Everytime I vomited, I felt like the gods were clutching at my stomach, fighting over who got to give me the cout de grace of all squeezes. A wonderful little love clutch at the gut

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[eliomo2]

1. sick. i know the feeling. last spring, finals week... i was throwing up from stomach pain. it hurt so bad it made me puke. disgusting.

1.5 dan would disagree... i may be small, but i am feisty

2. i am completely broke as well... getting cut off completely... my choice, however, i have been applying for rps positions like it's my job

3. yikes. hope that works out.

4. indeed...

The Number 23

[enion]

After Robert Anton Wilson's passing last week I have leafed through a number of his works, and yesterday a friend on LJ spontaneously brought up the 23 enigma, which she had seen a reference to somewhere, but didn’t know anything about.

So I was amazed to catch a movie trailer on TV tonight for a new Jim Carey film The Number 23.

Re: The Number 23

[awesomenick]

I've heard about this. Is it a remake of the Deutsch film of the same name? The main character in that was a hacker who went by the name Hagbard Celine.

I think Wilson would have disapproved... he was always the optomystic.

And... the 23 enigma was first noticed by William S. Burroughs. Wilson picked it up after his forays into beat/marijuana and drug culture of the sixties. I imagine Burroughs would have been much more comfortable with the "nightmarish" and the insanity.

Kinda reminds you of the King in Yellow, no?

Anyways, thanks for posting. Good to hear from you.

"Those who read the play The King in Yellow go mad and/or meet horrible ends."

[enion]

A bit of synchronicity here.

You were writing your reply this afternoon while I was out thrift shopping for books, an all-too-common weekend habit. One of the three books I bought was Paul Mungo and Bryan Clough’s Approaching Zero: The Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals from 1992.

I decided to buy it because I opened it at random to a chapter titled THE ILLUMINATI CONSPIRACY, about Karl Koch. Here’s a quote:

“Four years previously Karl Koch had been the first hacker in Germany recruited by agents working for the KGB… Apart from drugs, Koch’s only interest was hacking. His handle was Hagbard, an alias taken from the Illuminati trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.”

I found this ref to the German film:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%28movie%29

a bit of the ol’ 23 skiddoo, eh?

Re: "Those who read the play The King in Yellow go mad and/or meet horrible ends."

[awesomenick]

indeed.

23 skidoo... a mysterious phrase no one knows the source of. Earliest I can find is a chapter title for the text by Al Crowley, The Book of Lies, Falsely so called.

[almostbarefoot]

Probably.

Jess could snap Muriel in half.

[le_parapluie]

I am a brontosaurus, after all.

[awesomenick]

Would your girlfriend stay with you as you repeatedly emptied your stomach contents and then double-bag those same trinkets from the vomitorium, while medicating and hydrating you?

Eh, probably. Still, I have to say it, man. She is my girlfriend, afterall.

[anansithespider]

hey man,

I hope you're feelin better