I powered through Illuminatus! -- it felt like a beach read version of Foucault's Pendulum to me. I loved it, but it's kind of astonishing that only a few thin

I powered through Illuminatus! -- it felt like a beach read version of Foucault's Pendulum to me. I loved it, but it's kind of astonishing that only a few things have stuck with me * Posters signed "The MGT" * The charming Rand satire * The idea of the word "fnord" * The feeling of the counterculture -- a kind of sheer weird paranoia where magic can be real. I have a paper copy I still leaf through but what stuck with me is that there was a time and place where it made perfect sense to go out and levitate the Pentagon. This book explains, or purports to explain, a certain kind of weirdness that underlies a lot of the stories about the 60s and 70s.