The new Robert Anton Wilson book, above, won't be the last from Hilaritas.
Hilaritas Press already has an impressive catalog of Robert Anton Wilson books, along with books by other authors, but the flow of new RAW titles looks like it is going to keep going for awhile.
Mike Gathers -- Hilaritas Press podcast host, one of the editors who helps Rasa, Substack newsletter author, and so on -- reports that work has begun on a new book that collects Robert Anton Wilson's writings on magick. Mike has assembled 16 essays so far. Possible titles include RAW Magick in Theory and Practice or Maybe Magick.
Don't expect the book to come out right away. "We've got a long way to go to get this into print," Mike said.
Various other ideas for RAW anthologies are being kicked around, but I need to emphasize that at this point there are mostly just ideas and may not result in an actual book:
• Mike has worked to assemble some of RAW's more utopian pieces, possible title, A Vision of the Future.
• Mike has compiled a list of 29 pieces RAW wrote for other books, including forewords, prefaces, etc.
• Mike has a list of 27 book reviews which could form the kernel of a book.
• "And then there's RAW Letters, which could be an endless research project although some are already assembled by Mike Johnson, Martin Wagner and myself, and I'm aware that Gabriel Kennedy has the real inside scoop there," he says.
• "And another idea we've tossed around is RAW Interviews, which would take some transcription work on a lot of the audio stuff running around out there, and, at least the part that intimidates me the most, would be securing the publishing rights to that long and varied list of interviews (I've mentioned this to Rasa several times and he's always seemed unconcerned). Burroughs Live by Semiotext(E) would be the model for that RAW Interview book."
In case you missed my caution above, Mike says, "I want to emphasize that these are all just ideas I've tossed around with Rasa and Chad."
6 comments:
Yes sir! Keep it coming. I prefer the title RAW Magick in Theory and Practice over Maybe Magick as being clearer to the RAW uneducated. The latter could sound like one doesn’t know whether the contents constitute magick or not.
The other ideas sound great. I wonder if some of them could get consolidated into an anthology?
The comment about the Magick title preference comes from me. I forgot to switch to my google account.
I do like 'Maybe Magick' a lot for a title.
'Liber BOB'?
'Magick With Laughtears'?
An anthology of introductions, prefaces, forewords etc might be fairly easy to put together, and make for an excellent read. Although by now, quite a few of these intros have already appeared in various Hilaritas volumes.
Lon Milo DuQuette published such a collection of his own introductions, titled Allow Me To Introduce.
I do not know if there is still enough material floating around, or if it would even make sense to put it together in book form as I understand that was mostly email exchanges, but something related to the Maybe Logic Academy could be interesting as well.
I like 'Liber BOB'.
In that vein:
23 Neuromagicks
Robert Anton Wilson's Neuromancing for Fun & Profit
Ho Ghost Arrival
Do what thou wilt is the part of the Law that I can perceive.
I do like Liber BOB.
The big hang up with the intros, prefaces, etc., is that 14 of 29 are from New Falcon Press, so that would need to be negotiated (perhaps they wouldn't mind so much - we won't know until "we" (meaning Rasa) asks. A few have already been published.
I have a very incomplete archive of Wilson's comments at the Maybe Logic Academy, which when combined with his posts as Marc Chan on alt.fan.rawilson and his "group mind" emails, might make something of an interesting collection. They stand up well on their own, even when taken out of the context of the discussion. Brief ideogrammatic interactions.
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