"It is not the intent of this book to confuse fact with fancy." Authors Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson insert this modest disclaimer on page 760 of their 800-page postmodern sci-fi work The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Perhaps they should have offered these words of warning in large print at the outset of volume one.
In any case, I don't believe them for a…
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