Principia Discordia

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INTRODUCTION You hold in your hands wholeness of the Great Books of our century fnord. Some Great Books are acknowledge at once with a fusillade of critical huzzahs and gonfolons, akin Joyces Ulysses. Others appear to the highest degree furtively and are only if disc e actuallywhereed 50 years later, like Moby Dick or Mendels great essay on genetics. The Principia Discordia entered our space-time continuum almost as unobtrusively as a cat-burglar creeping over a windowsill. In 1968, virtually nobody had heard of this wondrous book. In 1970, hundreds of people from coast to coast were talking nearly it and asking the identity of the mysterious author, Malaclypse the Younger. Rumors swept across the continent, from new(a) York to Los Angeles, from Seattle to St. Joe. Malaclypse was genuinely Alan Watts, one heard. No, said another legend the Principia was in truth the work of the Sufi Order. A third, very intriguing legend held that Malaclypse was a pen-name for Richard M. Nixon, who had allegedly composed the Principia during a few moments of lucidity. I enjoyed each of these yarns and did my part to help spread them. I was in like manner careful never to contradict the occasional rumors that I had actually written the whole thing myself during an acid trip.



The legendry, the mystery, the cult grew very slowly. By the mid1970s, thousands of people, some as far off as Hong Kong and Australia, were talking about the Principia, and since the original was out of print by then, xerox copies were beginning to circulate here and there. When the Illuminatus trilogy appeared in 1975, my co-author, bobber Shea, and I both received hundreds of letters from people intrigued by the quotes from the Principia with which we had decorated the heads of several chapters. Many, who had already heard of the Principia or seen copies, asked if Shea and I had written it, or if we had copies available. Others wrote to ask if it were real, or just something we had...If you wishing to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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