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\lline{\hl An Evening with Robert Anton Wilson}
\lline{\hlmed At Sonoma State University, CA, 12 Nov 89 (24¨
AFTERMATH 3155)}
\lline{by Deke Nihilson}

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Well it was quite an evening of interpretive motifs, such as it¨
were. R.A. Wilson looks like a cross between C. Coolidge, Gerald¨
Ford, my roommate Neil, Al Haig and, umm, Hunter S. Thompson¨
makes it five, only different.

Some motifs in motion: Mafia/CIA/Vatican guns for coke for money¨
for laundering; a Rajneesh global library copy of th'¨
Illuminatus! lifted from a locked library in Leipzig and¨
presented unto him to sign in Berlin; fascist American reality,¨
drugs, and the war on 'em \& the actual size of King Kong's¨
SCHLONG (he loved th' term) and archetypal relations thereof to¨
``God''(s), such as {\it that} is.

Throw in a few painful puns, hard-worked buffoonery, and a couple¨
explanations (one very good) of how reality as perceived in¨
``everyday'' life is indeed held together by synchronicity, just¨
as quantum-level reality ``seems'' to be, and you have the gist¨
of the thang, the crust of the poem.

Then it was Q \& A time. So I your check-it-out scribe popped¨
(ahem) him the following question as a verbalized Homocore rep:¨
considering his treatment of subject matter as permutations on¨
(relatively) basic phenomena, why does homosexuality come up so¨
rarely when he discusses sexuality so much? I also pointed out¨
that he failed to mention homosexuality not at all when¨
discussing pantheistic deities at length, in relation to King¨
Kong's SCHLONG. 

His response was to simplify my question, for the benefit of the¨
audience dontcha know, to ``why don't you talk about¨
homosexuals'', which wasn't really what I asked at all. The¨
mentioned four bisexual male characters from his numerous books,¨
one gay character (not incidentally ``Padr\'e Pederastia'' from¨
Illuminatus!, his only overt ``gay'' character I remember¨
anywhere). Then he mentioned his theory of sexual preference as¨
accidental social imprinting (you decide), said he didn't know¨
anything about homosexuality anyway and has no desire to flaunt¨
his ignorance (almost a point, had I asked what he said my¨
question was), and told me if I wanted to read about¨
homosexuality I should read Rechy (which I have). Affirming his¨
heterosexuality, he then moved on to other questions.

Had he not mentioned my question out of the blue 45 minutes later¨
to solicit laughs, which he then got, I could have accepted his¨
answer as honest if not really responsive.

A few questions later, a women in the front row posed a complex¨
question structure, a facet of which was this: in his opinion,¨
did he see a difference in wimmin-based and men-based¨
spirituality involving repression of opposite-gender ``trait''¨
repression. Wilson responded yes, that wimmin balanced male and¨
female and men repressed female aspects of their spirituality,¨
which makes them more insane and violent. It thrilled me that¨
Wilson sees this truth in a broad social sense, but he totally¨
missed mentioning the fact that gay pagans (witches, mod­
primitive shamans, radical f\ae ries, for example) are very often¨
{\it very} open to balancing both ``masculine'' and ``feminine''¨
in their personality structures and can be exceptionally¨
affirming, healing people. An interesting social myopia¨
considering he never addressed the pantheistic spirituality facet¨
of my question.

But then he didn't claim to know\dots don't think he really cared¨
to\dots

All was not turgidity tho'. What he had to say about drugs, about¨
control cartels, about the quantum nature of all realities we as¨
a species so far have perceived, about New-Age-d feel-good¨
dippiness, and about a ``smorgasbord'' of other motifs was right­
on and righteous and at moments cool as shit.

Two final notes: I'm sending R.A. Wilson a copy of this ish and¨
inviting him to respond in any way he sees fit and conducive.¨
Maybe he'll respond for the next zine and, well, mebbe not, eh?¨
Guess we'll hafta wait and see\dots

The other thang; he claims to have done an album five+ years ago¨
called ``The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy'' with a ``punk rock''¨
band named THE GOLDEN HORDE on the Irish label Hot Wire Records.¨
Outa print, but available bootleg in the U.S. He sez he's never¨
seen it. Anyone out there got any info, if not, a copy? I'll¨
reciprocate as best I can fer a copy\dots get in touch let's¨
trade turpidge\dots \hfill $lambda$

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