title: Masks of the Illuminati: A Novel
author:  Robert Anton Wilson 
description: <b>Robert Anton Wilson</b>(19322007) was the author of some thirty-five books including <i>Cosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising,</i>and the Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, and the co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy. He was a futurist, author, lecturer, stand-up comic, guerrilla ontologist, psychedelic magician, outer head of the Illuminati, quantum psychologist, Taoist sage, Discordian Pope, Struthian politician . . . maybe. He described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with different perspectives recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth."
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  **Masks of the Illuminati**
  
  
  by Robert Anton Wilson
  
  
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  "I was astonished and delighted. . . Wilson managed to reverse every mental
  polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity." -- Phillip K. Dick
  One fateful evening in a suitably dark, beer-soaked Swiss rathskeller, a wild
  and obscure Irishman named James Joyce would become the drinking partner of an
  unknown physics professor called Albert Einstein. And on that same momentous
  night, Sir John Babcock, a terror-stricken young Englishman, would rush
  through the tavern door bringing a mystery that only the two most brilliant
  minds of the century could solve. . .or perhaps bringing only a figment of his
  imagination born of the paranoia of our times.
  
  
  
  
  
  An outrageous, raunchy ride through the twists and turns of mind and space,
  _Masks of the Illuminati_ runs amok with all our fondest conspiracy theories
  to show us the truth behind the laughter. . . a