In the comments for my Nov. 19 post, about the documents Bobby Campbell posted after going through the Ed Sanders papers at Princeton University's library special collections, Jesse Walker posts a question about "Hodge Podge," a three page document written by Mordecai Malignatus, i.e. RAW.
Jesse asked, "Is "Hodge Podge" one of the cut bits from Illuminatus!?
"(It is certainly the first place I've ever seen Robert Anton Wilson make a Merle Haggard reference. My worlds collide!)"
When I read it, it certainly seemed possible to me that it was a bit cut from Illuminatus!.
I had the same question about "Anarchism and Crime," an essay featured in both the new Robert Anton Wilson book, A Non-Euclidean Perspective: Robert Anton Wilson’s Political Commentaries 1960-2005, and in Every Day is a GOOD Day, the new Robert Shea anthology.
It was published in Green Egg magazine on May 1, 1974. It is attributed to both Wilson and Shea, which itself seems suggestive, and the date made me wonder if it became available after it was chopped out of the Appendix by one of the Dell editors making cuts in the book, or by Wilson and Shea when they were compelled by Dell to make cuts.
I should also note that RAW's old friend, Scott Apel, maintains that Wilson's book The Illuminati Papers includes material cut from Illuminatus! And in fact, there is independent evidence that Scott is correct.
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Very cool! And certainly seems possible :)))
There's a prose piece in the collection called "The Carnival is Over" that is absolutely and obviously an early draft of the speech Hagbard gives at Woodstock Europa. So RAW was for sure pulling stuff from this era of writing for Illuminatus!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WRKG-ZMsOX7mUH_MXFU7XCSSs10wcD6Y/view?usp=sharing
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