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Illuminatus!

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Illuminatus!	comment	The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson purportedly between 1969 and 1971, and first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, apparently postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex- and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, which hinge around the authors' version of The Illuminati. The narrative often switches between third and first person perspectives. The third-person omniscient narrator finds these switches, as well as its original non-identity as a disembodied narrator, very troubling and disconcerting at first. It also jumps around in time, as do the minds of some of the characters, but by then it has settled down to a point where it is somewhat less evidently self-aware. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, anarchism, and Discordianism.The trilogy comprises the books The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple and Leviathan. They were first published starting in September 1975, as three separate volumes, and in 1984 as an omnibus; they are now more commonly reprinted in the latter form. The trilogy won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction, in 1986. The authors went on to create several works, both fiction and nonfiction, that further discussed the themes of the trilogy, but no direct sequels were produced. Illuminatus! has been adapted for the stage, and has influenced several modern writers, musicians and games-makers. The popularity of the word "fnord" and the 23 enigma can both be attributed to the trilogy. It remains a seminal work of conspiracy fiction, predating Foucault's Pendulum and The Da Vinci Code by decades.Shea and Wilson followed this up with the related Schrodinger's Cat trilogy, which develops the alternate-universes model of quantum physics, using permutations on the same characters and settings.Wilson went on, solo, to write the Historical Illuminatus trilogy, a tangential work called The Illuminatus Papers and the standalone novel Masks of the Illuminati, seemingly conventional novels providing some of the historical context behind the main trilogy, that further develop and explore the ideas of Illuminatus!. These also drop the same sort of delayed-action mindfucks and logic bombs on the reader, although far more subtly. Wilson also published a large number of non-fiction works expanding on the novel's themes such as the Cosmic Trigger trilogy. Many of these later works were embraced by the New Age community.Shea wrote the Shike! series of historical romances set in Asia and Japan at the time of Kublai Khan, and the All Things are Light series set at the time of the Crusades. These are about 80% conventional historical thriller, and 20% mysticism, Sufi, and Zen Buddhism.Both authors died leaving their series unfinished, although unpublished illuminatus-related work is available on both their websites.Also known for inspiring early-90s electronic dance musicians, The KLF, AKA The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. Both names are references to the books.
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Illuminatus! / int_16c3b640	type	Apple of Discord
Illuminatus! / int_16c3b640	comment	Apple of Discord: Turns out it works on Nazi zombies.
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Illuminatus! / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Illuminatus! / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: In the beginning, the narrator doesn't know who, what, or when he is as he bounces back in forth in the story through different viewpoint characters, and eventually realizes he's a third-person omniscient narrator in a fiction novel.
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Illuminatus! / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Illuminatus! / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Howard and his friends are alternatively referred to as dolphins and porpoises. They are, in fact, biologically distinct species.
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Illuminatus! / int_1a237409	type	Order Versus Chaos
Illuminatus! / int_1a237409	comment	Order Versus Chaos: As far as the Discordians are concerned, Order and Disorder are only two aspects of Chaos, which contains everything. They are on the side of Disorder because Order has overwhelmed the society, but they don't plan on destroying Order entirely (or believe that they could).
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Illuminatus! / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
Illuminatus! / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: Turns out the Law of Fives applies here, too.
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Illuminatus! / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Illuminatus! / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: 00005, a James Bond expy who finds himself in way over his head trying to infiltrate the Starry Wisdom Church. Still, when at Fernando Poo, he's more aware of the truth behind the event than all the major intelligence agencies.
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Illuminatus! / int_2d1d46bb	type	Lotsa People Try to Dun It
Illuminatus! / int_2d1d46bb	comment	Lotsa People Try to Dun It: Five assassins were actually gunning for JFK, although only one succeeded, and one other (Oswald) got caught.
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Illuminatus! / int_2da5273e	type	Just Like Robin Hood
Illuminatus! / int_2da5273e	comment	Just Like Robin Hood: John Dillinger via Historical Hero Upgrade. Also, to a certain degree, Hagbard Celine. Somewhat justified in that Hagbard seems at least to a certain degree to be a parody of Ayn Rand's character Ragnar Danneskjold.
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Illuminatus! / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Illuminatus! / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Harry Coin claims to be willing to have sex with anything that moves and a few things that don't. His first appearance in the story involves him trying to Prison Rape George Dorn, and threatening to rape his corpse if he didn't submit willingly. Later on he does a Heel–Face Turn and joins the good guys, and explains that the weird sex acts cause him to see pure white light, implying that he achieved a partial illumination through them!
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Illuminatus! / int_2f540567	type	Pop Culture Symbology
Illuminatus! / int_2f540567	comment	Pop Culture Symbology: Being a postmodern novel, it contains lots of this. For instance, Bugs Bunny is revealed to be a symbol of Lovecraft's shoggoths, and "You Wascal Wabbit" was the password of Illuminati agents in Hollywood.
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Illuminatus! / int_32e7cb8d	type	Waking Up Elsewhere
Illuminatus! / int_32e7cb8d	comment	Waking Up Elsewhere: * In the Historical Illuminatus series novel The Widow's Son, lead character Sigismundo Celine is consigned to the Bastille. He ends up under a heavy security regimen after escaping and being recaptured, effectively confined to his cell where he has ample opportunity to memorise all the details of his room. One day he wakes up after a deeper sleep than normal to realise he is on the ceiling and looking down at his room - the floor has become his new ceiling. Gravity has seemingly reversed itself in the night. But he looks carefully and sees small inconsistencies in placement and arrangement of furniture. He also realises the window has suddenly been boarded over. He deduces he has been drugged and moved to an elaborate hoax set-up, for reasons as yet unclear.
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Illuminatus! / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Illuminatus! / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: You know the Bavarian Illuminati? Secret organization out to rule the world from behind the scenes? Well, it turns out that they're the ones who are being manipulated. In fact, every single one of the dozens of the dozens of plans and predictions and all the quick adjustments played by the different characters and factions in the book can be interpreted as Out-Gambitted from one point of view or another.
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Illuminatus! / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
Illuminatus! / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: The main characters eventually learn that they are characters in the book itself, being narrated by an all-powerful, overseeing AI. Of course, the book is so perspective-jumping and Mind Screw-filled that what the "truth" is is intentionally left up to the reader. In an earlier example, twice in the book the associate editor of "Confrontation" (the magazine that several of the characters are associated with) calls up his book reviewer to ask about the progress of his latest review. The books described by the book reviewer are obviously the Illuminatus! trilogy itself (for added humor, the book reviewer has nothing but contempt for the trilogy's length, shifting perspective, complicated plot, or frequent use of sex, drugs, and obscene language).
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Illuminatus! / int_3cb287ce	type	Bad Date
Illuminatus! / int_3cb287ce	comment	Bad Date: the literature critic Epicine Wildblood had placed a personals ad for "men interested in Greek culture" but got an answer from the unnamed, heterosexual Vice President of the US who wanted to talk about how great he thinks the Greek military Junta is.
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Illuminatus! / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Illuminatus! / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	John Dillinger via Historical Hero Upgrade.
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Illuminatus! / int_40207000	type	Never Going Back to Prison
Illuminatus! / int_40207000	comment	Never Going Back to Prison: Dillinger's attitude towards returning to prison.
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Illuminatus! / int_4304666a	type	Meta Fiction
Illuminatus! / int_4304666a	comment	Metafiction
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Illuminatus! / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Illuminatus! / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Yog-Sothoth is imprisoned inside The Pentagon, where he's kept dormant by sacrificing unto him the souls of all the Americans who die in car accidents every year. It gets released near the end.
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Illuminatus! / int_49aa9584	type	Unified Naming System
Illuminatus! / int_49aa9584	comment	Unified Naming System: The plethora of acronymous —and mutually acrimonious.- competing groups. This is not done entirely seriously —witness KCUF— Knights of Christ United in Faith. Or WHORE —White Heroes Opposing Red Extremism.
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Illuminatus! / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Illuminatus! / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Several of the characters work for magazines and newspapers, with both outlets playing major roles throughout the trilogy. Shea and Wilson were both working as associate editors for Playboy at the time.
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Illuminatus! / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Illuminatus! / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The book contains a scathing review of the fictional Telemachus Sneezed. All of the criticisms are aspects of the Illuminatus! Trilogy itself.
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Illuminatus! / int_4b1ca7d2	type	Genre Roulette
Illuminatus! / int_4b1ca7d2	comment	Genre Roulette: Comedy, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, police procedural, political thriller, pornography...
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Illuminatus! / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Illuminatus! / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Gruad the Greyface, a.k.a. the Dealy Lama, is either this or a Hero with Bad Publicity, depending on who you ask. Of course, if you ask him, he'll probably tell you that he's actually a Villain with Good Publicity — we ultimately learn that he engineered his own bad publicity as part of being The Atoner.
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Illuminatus! / int_5230d420	type	Cosmopolitan Council
Illuminatus! / int_5230d420	comment	Cosmopolitan Council: Since it's Discordians, the funny costumes were probably just for laughs. Probably.
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Illuminatus! / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
Illuminatus! / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: Hagbard Celine goes out of his way to make sure his 'disciples' know he's a massive liar who can't be completely trusted. He hopes they'll apply that lesson to other mentors as well. He has named his organization "The Legion of Dynamic Discord" primarily so that he can eventually tell the members that the initials "LDD" really stands for "Little Deluded Dupes." He is also fond of a painting of Moses on Mount Sinai carrying stone tablets that read "Think for yourself, schmuck!"
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Illuminatus! / int_591d8e01	type	Hippie Van
Illuminatus! / int_591d8e01	comment	Hippie Van: Subverted and Lampshaded when Hagbard Celine criticizes Simon Moon's VW, pointing out that a bunch of hippies in a VW Microbus will be stopped and searched EVERY time, while a white guy in a suit driving a BMW will never be stopped by the police. This is Hagbard's method of choice for drug transportation, and Simon admits he never dares have anything on him when he's in his VW.
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Illuminatus! / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
Illuminatus! / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: fnord. It is hinted that the actual fnord word is not fnord, but some word people actually fnording use, with the same effect.
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Illuminatus! / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Illuminatus! / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: The complete listing of the names of the rock bands that are set to play at the climactic Walpurgisnacht concert goes on for quite a while. One of them is Nirvana. Considering the members of that band had only just been born when the books were written, it's more likely Nirvana refers to the British psychedelic band of the same name, or the name may have been made up on the spot. Legend has it that every single one of the bands listed, solely barring the ones that are actually portrayed on stage, has actually existed; the fact that the list contains a fairly large number of well-known (for some value of "well-known") bands such as "H.P. Lovecraft" and "Steppenwolf" makes the claim plausible.
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Illuminatus! / int_617a1d43	type	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink
Illuminatus! / int_617a1d43	comment	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: To the extent that every other conspiracy theory/mindfuck is laughable once you grasp Illuminatus! Seriously. This is the book whose appendices included the line "We have mentioned only one real conspiracy; this book is part of it" [paraphrased]. There's a reason why this trilogy is often promoted with the tagline, "A fairy tale for paranoids."
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Illuminatus! / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Illuminatus! / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Namely, Ghostapo: (the Nazis that attack the Ingolstadt Rock Festival are a SS division who collectively committed suicide and was then revived as Zombies by the Illuminati).
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Illuminatus! / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Illuminatus! / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: too many to count, including Fission Chips, Markov Chaney, Saul Goodman and the Saure siblings (named after the German word for "Acid", which is also the S in LSD)
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Illuminatus! / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
Illuminatus! / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: Of conspiracy theories, 1960s hippie culture, and even the book itself. See Self-Deprecation.
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Illuminatus! / int_74c3078d	type	TheRashomon
Illuminatus! / int_74c3078d	comment	The Rashomon: Just when, where, why, and how the Illuminati came to be varies wildly depending on who's telling the story. Most agree it started on Atlantis, but the rest is up to debate.
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Illuminatus! / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
Illuminatus! / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Harry Coin on George Dorn. Or not.
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Illuminatus! / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Illuminatus! / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Wilson and Shea's initial inspiration for the novel was the wide range of Conspiracy Theorist nutbars of all persuasions whose letters they read as editors for Playboy.
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Illuminatus! / int_7d6b47ef	type	Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum!
Illuminatus! / int_7d6b47ef	comment	Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum!: The AUM drug, sort of. It is supposed to just increase intelligence, openness and creativity, but a judge who takes it suddenly also has a profound understanding of higher mathematics, communication theory, and set theory. To be fair, he does read books on these topics that he picks up right after taking the drug. The idea seems to be that the drug increases mental openness, creative thinking, and absorption of new information to superhuman levels. Essentially, after taking the drug, his mind can piece together all this information from just skimming through the books where other minds would take months or even years studying the respective concepts. The trope kind of still applies though.
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Illuminatus! / int_85aaedbf	type	Mystical City Planning
Illuminatus! / int_85aaedbf	comment	Mystical City Planning: It's implied that The Pentagon is built that way because of the occult significance of the shape, and that it's housing some sort of Eldritch Abomination.
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Illuminatus! / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Illuminatus! / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: In addition to the Lloigor, there's also the Leviathan, a mountain-sized single-celled life form that's lived in the oceans since the Precambrian Era.
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Illuminatus! / int_890bb892	type	Eye of Providence
Illuminatus! / int_890bb892	comment	Eye of Providence: The eye-in-the-pyramid is an omnipresent symbol of the world-spanning conspiracy (of which The Illuminati are just a small branch) that the heroes are fighting. Eventually, the latter even discover the (in-story) origin/inspiration of said symbol: a giant sea monster named Leviathan, slumbering in the sunken ruins of Atlantis, shaped like a pyramid with a giant glowing sphere inside it that looks like an eyenote Leviathan is actually an offspring of the very first eukaryotic cell that evolved on Earth: after its very first division, one of its halves went on to evolve into multicellular life, including humans, while the other just kept growing without dividing for billions of years, adopting the pyramid shape for structural support; the "eye" is actually its giant nucleus shining through the cell walls.
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Illuminatus! / int_8ad2077d	type	The Government
Illuminatus! / int_8ad2077d	comment	The Government: It's worth noting that Illuminatus was originally written before the Watergate scandal, although it was revised somewhat afterward. It was also revised after the publication of Gravity's Rainbow in order to insert Shout Outs to Pynchon's novel. note Incidentally, Gravity's Rainbow was also revised after Watergate. The epigraph of that novel's fourth section had been a quote from Joni Mitchell's "Cactus Tree" in the galley sent out to reviewers before the publication of the novel, but in the aftermath of Watergate it was changed to Richard Nixon saying "What?" for the final edition.
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Illuminatus! / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Illuminatus! / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The story, if you really wanna call it that, jumps back and forth between plot threads as well as points in time in a seemingly random fashion, with the narrator even recounting events that haven't happened yet. Also happens with Joe Malick In-Universe.
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Illuminatus! / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Illuminatus! / int_8e5c862	comment	Ancient Conspiracy: Subverted. While several conspiracies claim to be ancient, none of them are more than 250 years old, and the only organization that really is as old as it claims is more of an Ancient Tradition than a conspiracy.
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Illuminatus! / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: The novel Telemachus Sneezed, a parody of Atlas Shrugged, which asks the question "What is John Guilt?" Atlas Shrugged is mentioned several times itself, however. Telemachus Sneezed might be a thought experiment on what would have been the result if Ayn Rand had focused her interest in Ancient Greek philosophy on Heraclitus instead of Parmenides and Aristotle. It's an interesting fact however that Atlas Shrugged is anti-government, while Telemachus Sneezed is depicted as definitely pro-strong-government to the point of being openly fascist.
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Illuminatus! / int_90b6a043	type	Mega-Microbes
Illuminatus! / int_90b6a043	comment	Mega-Microbes: Leviathan, the "other half of creation" that sustains itself by having grown, whilst remining a single-celled organism: he is the brother of Mother Nature, who grows by having divided into all the millions of discrete species on Earth. After millenia and aeons, Leviathan is large.
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Illuminatus! / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Illuminatus! / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Arguably Stella and Mavis, for George. Subverted in that they turn out to be the same person (or rather, Goddess).
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Illuminatus! / int_9558599b	type	The New Rock & Roll
Illuminatus! / int_9558599b	comment	The New Rock & Roll: Actually, just rock and roll.
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Illuminatus! / int_97a82530	type	Sewer Gator
Illuminatus! / int_97a82530	comment	Sewer Gator: There is a passing mention of the Illuminati going to some effort to suppress the Sewer Gators under Manhattan, as left unchecked, they might promote more courage among the ignorant masses than the Illuminati would like.
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Illuminatus! / int_9826b657	type	Multilayer FaÃ§ade
Illuminatus! / int_9826b657	comment	Multilayer Façade: Every ancient secret is actually a cover-up for some other ancient secret. And yes, that same principle applies to pretty much every level, thus creating an infinite loop of The Reveal.
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Illuminatus! / int_9a7d4472	type	Stock Ness Monster
Illuminatus! / int_9a7d4472	comment	Stock Ness Monster: It says something about the nature of this book that a brief encounter with Nessie is one of the least weird things to happen in it.
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Illuminatus! / int_9d0f2549	type	Public Secret Message
Illuminatus! / int_9d0f2549	comment	Public Secret Message: A secret society places personal ads reading "In thanks to St. Jude for favors answered - A.W." as a code to their other members.
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Illuminatus! / int_9eb229d9	type	Cynical Mentor
Illuminatus! / int_9eb229d9	comment	Cynical Mentor: The Dealy Lama (AKA Gruad the Greyface), who lives beneath Dealy Plaza.
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Illuminatus! / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Illuminatus! / int_a1b0bde2	comment	Revealing Cover Up: Two police detectives get sucked into the story when a left-wing magazine's office is bombed, and they find a collection of notes about the Illuminati in the wreckage. It turns out the magazine's editor set the bomb, specifically to get one of the detectives on the case.
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Illuminatus! / int_a246aed6	type	Sapient Cetaceans
Illuminatus! / int_a246aed6	comment	Sapient Cetaceans: Dolphins aid the Discordians in their underwater expeditions.
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Illuminatus! / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
Illuminatus! / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: There are a lot of different stories told about Gruad the Greyface, which make him out to be anything from the original Satan or heroic Prometheus or anything in between. Graud claims he started most of the rumors himself and was just sort of in the right place at the appropriate time, but who knows.
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Illuminatus! / int_a5706f9	type	World of Mysteries
Illuminatus! / int_a5706f9	comment	World of Mysteries: The main storyline does get resolved, but there are lots of side plotlines which are either completely unresolved or provide contradictory answers regarding "who's behind what" and "who works for whom" (such as Mama Sutra's story about the Cult of the Yellow Sign).
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Illuminatus! / int_a5adbbe7	type	Unreliable Expositor
Illuminatus! / int_a5adbbe7	comment	Unreliable Expositor: As befits a Conspiracy Kitchen Sink, taken up to eleven.
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Illuminatus! / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Illuminatus! / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Timothy Leary shows up a few times, and he and Wilson were friends in real life.
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Illuminatus! / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Illuminatus! / int_a60f7120	comment	Post-resurrection Jesus was a Physical God from ancient Greece, who's also Simon Magus and the Reverend Billy Graham.
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Illuminatus! / int_a808063f	type	Black-and-White Insanity
Illuminatus! / int_a808063f	comment	Black-and-White Insanity: One of the main drives behind the Illuminati. Especially evident during the scene where Gruad the Greyface is introduced.
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Illuminatus! / int_a859f080	type	Agent Peacock
Illuminatus! / int_a859f080	comment	Agent Peacock: A resident of Fernando Poo who kills several soldiers with a broadsword before being riddled with bullets.
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Illuminatus! / int_a9f2e259	type	Mole in Charge
Illuminatus! / int_a9f2e259	comment	Mole in Charge: Hagbard is one of the leaders of just about every conspiracy out there, even though they're all opposing each other.
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Illuminatus! / int_ab27d196	type	Apocalypse Cult
Illuminatus! / int_ab27d196	comment	Apocalypse Cult: The Illuminati Prime (the five most powerful people in the world) are actively seeking to Immanetize the Eschaton — ie, bring about the apocalypse — to make themselves immortal and provide a massive blood sacrifice to their Elder Brothers and Sisters, the Lloigr of Cthulu.
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Illuminatus! / int_b3d1b7e3	type	Genius Bonus
Illuminatus! / int_b3d1b7e3	comment	Legend has it that every single one of the bands listed, solely barring the ones that are actually portrayed on stage, has actually existed; the fact that the list contains a fairly large number of well-known (for some value of "well-known") bands such as "H.P. Lovecraft" and "Steppenwolf" makes the claim plausible.
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Illuminatus! / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Illuminatus! / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: One example from the appendix (although it is hardly the only one), talking about the difference between property(1), which only exists due to the threat of force, and property(2), mutually agreed upon by all members of society: An in-universe example with Howard the Porpoise's song about sharks: One to the book reviewers and the publishing industry in general:
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Illuminatus! / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Illuminatus! / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: Shea and Wilson had to cut out around 500 pages from the finished manuscript in order for publishers to even give it a chance. Considering how long the trilogy is in its current form, this is arguably Justified. There is a Running Gag throughout Illuminatus! where entire pages from In-Universe texts were removed by the publishers for... reasons.
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Illuminatus! / int_b8ab7dc4	type	Treacherous Advisor
Illuminatus! / int_b8ab7dc4	comment	Treacherous Advisor: Hagbard , to both the Discordians and the Illuminati. However, he's not really aiming to betray anyone, just teach and illuminate them towards independent, non-destructive existence. In the case of the Illuminati he eventually gives up due to their refusal to even try to communicate peacefully with the world.
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Illuminatus! / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
Illuminatus! / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: The paragraphs introducing the US president, the Soviet premier, and the Chinese premier are word-for-word identical, and all end by comparing the one to the other two.
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Illuminatus! / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Illuminatus! / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: At just about every possible opportunity. One of the conspiracies involved even has a plan called "Operation Mindfuck," a reference to a real life Discordian project with the same name, though the novel's equivalent has greater ambition (or possibly just greater resources).
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Illuminatus! / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Illuminatus! / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Two examples are an ultra-right-wing group called the Knights of Christianity United in Faith, and a computer named the First Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultramicro-Programmer. There's also two right-wing organizations whose acronyms are WHORE and TWAT. One of the many groups holds its meetings on Lake Shore Drive "because of the acrostic significance".
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Illuminatus! / int_c3c91506	type	Depraved Dwarf
Illuminatus! / int_c3c91506	comment	Depraved Dwarf: Markov Chaney, AKA The Midget, a bitter genius who takes his frustration on humanity by hiding in office coffee pots and creating fake red tape documents and awkwardly demanding business signs.
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Illuminatus! / int_c6893b6d	type	Captain Nemo Copy
Illuminatus! / int_c6893b6d	comment	Captain Nemo Copy: Hagbard Celine, the genius anarchist who opposes The Illuminati with his golden submarine, the Leif Ericson.
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Illuminatus! / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Illuminatus! / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To Principia Discordia in particular (to the point where it could almost be considered a companion work), as well as H. P. Lovecraft, Ayn Rand, Conan the Barbarian, The Lord of the Rings, and numerous others. When the Illuminati come for him, Drake quotes Bride of Frankenstein: "We belong dead." Several characters compare Hagbard to Captain Nemo.
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Illuminatus! / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Illuminatus! / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: At one point there's a scathing "review" of a novel which is pretty transparently Illuminatus! itself. See the page quote.
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Illuminatus! / int_ccd7abf5	type	Fakeout Escape
Illuminatus! / int_ccd7abf5	comment	Fakeout Escape: The explanation provided for Dillinger's escapes from prison.
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Illuminatus! / int_d17eaa9f	type	Postmodernism
Illuminatus! / int_d17eaa9f	comment	Postmodernism: While the book is frequently categorized as Postmodern literature, Postmodernism is deconstructed and parodied throughout. Whether that qualifies as Take That! or Self-Deprecation depends on how much of the authors' Mind Screw you feel applies; however, Robert Anton Wilson has published more direct deconstructions of Postmodernism (e.g. Maybe Logic), so it's more likely to be the former than the latter. (Then again, the authors were apparently pretty big fans of Thomas Pynchon and James Joyce, so take that how you will).
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Illuminatus! / int_d207556f	type	Scare Campaign
Illuminatus! / int_d207556f	comment	Scare Campaign: One of the Illuminati's favorite ways of keeping the masses in line.
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Illuminatus! / int_dcf83f95	type	Number Obsession
Illuminatus! / int_dcf83f95	comment	Number Obsession: Multiple characters are obsessed with the numbers 5, 17, and 23.
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Illuminatus! / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Illuminatus! / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: The strategies of several different competing secret societies collide and bounce off each other, introducing Chaos into Order.
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Illuminatus! / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Illuminatus! / int_dfe57573	comment	Cecil Rhodes coined the expression "Kick out the jams!", which later became the basis for the title of the MC5's classic punk song.
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Illuminatus! / int_e82bc849	type	Milkman Conspiracy
Illuminatus! / int_e82bc849	comment	Milkman Conspiracy: One Illuminati front works through controlling Discordians and anarchists, while another is led by the four members of a European teen pop group called "The American Medical Association".
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Illuminatus! / int_ec7da60a	type	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
Illuminatus! / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy The bank robber John Dillinger was actually identical Zen master quintuplets and one of the JFK assassins. George Washington may have been secretly replaced by Adam Weishaupt, "founder" of the Bavarian Illuminati. Cecil Rhodes coined the expression "Kick out the jams!", which later became the basis for the title of the MC5's classic punk song. The Beatles are the only band in the history of rock and roll to not be controlled by Satan. Post-resurrection Jesus was a Physical God from ancient Greece, who's also Simon Magus and the Reverend Billy Graham. The true identity of Stella/Mavis/Mao/Eris is strongly implied to have been Marilyn Monroe.
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Illuminatus! / int_f005213	type	Counter-Earth
Illuminatus! / int_f005213	comment	Counter-Earth: The leaders of the Illuminati may have originated on a counter-Earth named Vulcan and come to Earth on flying saucers from Mars via Saturn.
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Illuminatus! / int_f0f03464	type	TheSeventies
Illuminatus! / int_f0f03464	comment	The '70s: Let's just say that the Illuminatus! trilogy is very much of its time, although this isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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Illuminatus! / int_f3594e1	type	The All-Concealing "I"
Illuminatus! / int_f3594e1	comment	The All-Concealing "I": Much of the first-person narration is revealed at the end to be from the perspective of a third-person omniscient narrator in a fiction novel. However, there is a strong argument to be made for the existence of multiple first-person narrators; including, at one point, a squirrel.
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Illuminatus! / int_f4379d92	type	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
Illuminatus! / int_f4379d92	comment	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Tobias Knight goes this trope one better, being described as the only quintuple agent in the history of espionage.
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Illuminatus! / int_f4d61c26	type	Creepy Uncle
Illuminatus! / int_f4d61c26	comment	Creepy Uncle: the man who made Atlanta Hope the woman she became and who indirectly inspired Telemachus Sneezed.
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Illuminatus! / int_f528b28d	type	Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?
Illuminatus! / int_f528b28d	comment	Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Apparently the Necronomicon contains lots of pentagons, with images of people having sex with shoggoths and other Lovecraftian beings. Fission Chips hears a Shoggoth attempting to proposition him- at least according to him.
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Illuminatus! / int_f9e257ff	type	American Eagle
Illuminatus! / int_f9e257ff	comment	American Eagle: The book ends on a scene where an all-American hunter is climbing a mountain somewhere in the Rockies on a mission that will make him a god among hunters and utterly reviled by liberals, commies, ecologists, hippies and limp-wristed pinkos. Specifically, his mission is to kill the last known American Eagle. As he lowers his rifle and screams "I did it! I killed the last eagle!" the strands of the story come together as a massive earthquake begins under his feet. The San Andreas Fault has just broken up and at this point, a combination of earthquakes and tsunamis destroy the Pacific seaboard of the USA. The implication is clear: America is so bound up with its symbolic eagles that killing the last one, rendering the species extinct, also destroys the USA. The ideal of America dies with the last eagle.
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Illuminatus! / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Illuminatus! / int_f9f2c33	comment	There is a Running Gag throughout Illuminatus! where entire pages from In-Universe texts were removed by the publishers for... reasons.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Invisibles / Comicbook	seeAlso	Illuminatus!
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	A Good Name for a Rock Band / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Acid-Trip Dimension / int_bd1137ca
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Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Ancient Conspiracy / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Ancient Tradition / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Apocalypse Cult / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Arc Number / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Artifact of Attraction / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Atlantis / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Author Filibuster / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Banana Republic / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Belief Makes You Stupid / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Beware the Honest Ones / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Breaking the Fourth Wall / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Captain Nemo Copy / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Caustic Critic / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Chaotic Good / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Collective Identity / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Conspiracy Placement / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Contemplate Our Navels / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Cool Boat / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Cosmopolitan Council / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Depraved Dwarf / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Deus Sex Machina / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Disobey This Message / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Divided for Publication / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Dream Walker / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Drinking the Kool-Aid / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Drugs Are Good / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Egomaniac Hunter / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Everybody Must Get Stoned / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Evil Redhead / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Evil States of America / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Excited Show Title! / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Exploding Fish Tanks / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Extreme Omnisexual / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Eye Motifs / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Eye of Providence / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Faithâ€“Heel Turn / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Fakeout Escape / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Fantastic Drug / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Fantastic Terrorists / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Final Solution / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Framed for Heroism / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Gay Euphemism / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Gayngst-Induced Suicide / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Genghis Gambit / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Genius Bonus / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Ghostapo / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Golden Mean Fallacy / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Government Conspiracy / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Government Drug Enforcement / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Gratuitous German / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Heteronormative Crusader / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Hippie Van / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Jar Potty / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Julius Beethoven da Vinci / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Just Like Robin Hood / int_bd1137ca
Kabbalah	seeAlso	Illuminatus!
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Kosher Nostra / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Kraken and Leviathan / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Lemony Narrator / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Level-Up at Intimacy 5 / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Long List / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Magic Realism / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Meanwhile, in the Futureâ€¦ / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Mega-Microbes / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Milkman Conspiracy / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Molotov Cocktail / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Money to Burn / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Morally Bankrupt Banker / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Multilayer FaÃ§ade / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Multiple-Choice Past / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Mushroom Samba / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Mystical City Planning / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Napoleon Delusion / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Nazi Grandpa / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Neglectful Precursors / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Never Going Back to Prison / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	New Age / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	No Fourth Wall / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Noble Savage / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Number Obsession / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Oddly Small Organization / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Only the Knowledgable May Pass / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Oppressive States of America / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Order Versus Chaos / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Our Presidents Are Different / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Patient Zero / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Pedophile Priest / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Perception Filter / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Police Brutality / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Pop Culture Symbology / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Postmodernism / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Prison Rape / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Public Secret Message / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Purple Prose / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Renegade Splinter Faction / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Rich Boredom / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Running Both Sides / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse! / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Self-Proclaimed Liar / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Sewer Gator / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Sex Magic / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Single Specimen Species / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Sinister Minister / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Solar Flare Disaster / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Specific Situation Books / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Spirit World / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Stellar Name / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Stock Ness Monster / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Stock Unsolved Mysteries / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Straw Character / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Stuffed into a Trashcan / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Subliminal Seduction / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Submarine Pirates / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Survival Mantra / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Take That, Critics! / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Tarot Troubles / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	The All-Concealing "I" / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	The Illuminati / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	The Syndicate / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	The Walrus Was Paul / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Today, X. Tomorrow, the World! / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	True Neutral / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Undignified Death / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Unfazed Everyman / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Unified Naming System / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Unreliable Expositor / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Unstuck in Time / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Unusual Dysphemism / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Waking Up Elsewhere / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Watch It Stoned / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Western Terrorists / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Who Shot JFK? / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Word-Salad Horror / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Word-Salad Humor / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Words Can Break My Bones / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	World of Mysteries / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	World of Weirdness / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide" / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Libertarianism and Authoritarianism / int_bd1137ca
Illuminatus!	hasFeature	Tuxedo and Martini / int_bd1137ca

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