Schrodinger's cat trilogy - By Robert Anton Wilson Page 0,18
crown of the penis and Starhawk was reacting with a notable swelling. “What? Look, I just told you. It was a wrong number. What am I, a suspect you got in the back room? You must have made a mistake, even if it was the first time in your whole life.”
Marlene leaned forward and kissed Starhawk’s cock quickly and shifted back to the phone at once. “No. I said no, Daddy, no, and I meant it. The Church says I’m supposed to go to Confession to a priest once a year. It doesn’t say I’m supposed to go to Confession to my own father every time he calls me on the phone.”
Her hand was moving rapidly now, trying to make Starhawk ejaculate. He smiled, recognizing her game, and pulled away, to kneel before her and began licking her inner thighs.
“No. I haven’t seen Aunt Irene in two years. She’s involved in what? Greenpeace? That’s just to protect the whales. There’s nothing communistic about it and half the people in Mendocino are in it. What? Sure, but they just like whales up there. What do you mean my voice is getting funny? It must be a cold coming on. Yes. Yes. Oh, God, it’s the door. Yes. I love you, too, Daddy. The door.” She hung up quickly, her pelvis heaving. “God, God, God. Oh, sweet fucking Jesus God.”
Starhawk stood up and said, “You like that kind of game? Why don’t you call the Archbishop and I’ll do it to you again while you talk to him.”
“You are a prize,” Marlene said. “You really are a prize. Have you spent your whole life learning how to please women?”
“It’s my life study,” Starhawk said. “Everything else is just a hobby.”
Starhawk, like most of the characters in this Romance, was a liar.
Most primates lied constantly, because they were afraid of getting caught and being pronounced no-good shits.
Starhawk was always afraid of getting caught, because his life study was really burglary.
Starhawk thought he had a right to steal anything and everything he could get away with from the white people.
The white people had stolen all the land in Unistat from his ancestors.
Starhawk, like the grim moralists in POE, was determined to get even.
Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as “expropriating the expropriators,” “an absolute crime demands an absolute penalty,” “they did it to me so I can do it to them,” and, in general, the emotional mathematics of “one plus one equals zero” (1 + 1 = 0).
The primates were so dumb they didn’t realize that one plus one equals two (1 + 1 = 2) and one murder plus one murder equals two murders, one crime plus one crime equals two crimes, etc.
They did not understand causality at all.
The few primates who did understand causality slightly called it karma. They said all sorts of foolish things about it.
They didn’t even know enough mathematics to describe quantum probability waves. They said, in crude hominid metaphor, that bad karma led to “bad vibes.”
LANDSLIDE
Bryce S. DeWitt states: “The Copenhagen view promotes the impression that the collapse of the state vector, and even the state vector itself, is all in the mind.” … One fact which seems to emerge from the present discussions of the nature of consciousness is that it is nonlocal (i.e., not confined to a certain region of space-time)….
—LAWRENCE BEYNAM, Future Science
Furbish Lousewart V was elected President of the United States in 1980 with the greatest landslide since Roosevelt II buried poor Alf Landon alive in 1936. The People’s Ecology Party also gained control of both the House and the Senate and twenty-three governorships out of the fifty-one.
The PEP platform, a weird mixture of tangled religiosity and New Left antirationalism, became official policy.
The New Order began mildly—at least by comparison with what was to follow—and the major changes of the first administration consisted only of cutting the NASA budget to zilch; banning McDonald’s hamburger shops (which resulted in underground “Steakeasies,” where you gave the right password and got a Big Mac for $7); outlawing tobacco (a “lid” of Chesterfields was soon selling for $50 to $75 coast to coast); appointing three antitechnology fanatics to the first three vacancies in the Supreme Court; forbidding the teaching of Logical Positivism in colleges; throwing everybody off welfare (the streets were soon full of crippled and schizophrenic beggars, some of whom also slept there or even starved there on occasion, creating that Third World look which PEP regulars regarded as “spiritual”); cutting the