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Line 10: {{color\|white\|fnord}} ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== Contains: ===~~ * [[The All-Concealing "I"]] -- Much of the first-person narration is revealed at the end to be from the perspective of {{spoiler\|a third-person omniscient narrator in a fiction novel}}. ** There is a strong argument to be made for the existence of multiple first-person narrators; including, at one point, a squirrel. Line 91 ⟶ 90: * [[Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum]] -- The AUM drug, sort of. It is ''supposed'' to just increase intelligence, openness and creativity, but a judge who takes it suddenly also has a profound understanding of higher mathematics, communication theory, and set theory. * [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] -- The [[Cosmic Horror]] Yog-Sothoth is imprisoned inside {{spoiler\|[[The Pentagon]]}}, where he's kept dormant by {{spoiler\|sacrificing unto him the souls of all the Americans who die in auto accidents every year.}} It gets released near the end. * [[Shout-Out]] -- To [[Principia Discordia]] in particular, as well as [[H.P. Lovecraft]], [[Ayn Rand]], ''[[Conan]]'', ''The [[The Lord of the Rings]]'', and numerous others. Some of these might be [[Take That\|Take Thats]], depending on your reading. ** The Rand one is ''definitely'' a [[Take That]] - Celine's comments in the appendix (Celine being as close to an [[Author Avatar]] as there is in the book) make that obvious. There are also several [[Shout-Out\|Shout Outs]] to [[Thomas Pynchon]], especially ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]''. * [[Strawman Political]] -- several. * [[The Syndicate]] * [[Take That]] -- One example from the appendix (although it is hardly the only one), talking about the difference between property(1), which only exists due to the threat of force, and property(2), mutually agreed upon by all members of society: {{quote\| The error of most alleged libertarians — especially the followers(!) of the egregious Ayn Rand — is to assume that all property(1) is property(2). The distinction can be made by any IQ above 70 and is absurdly simple. The test is to ask, of any title of ownership you are asked to accept or which you ask others to accept, ‘Would this be honored in a free society of rationalists, or does it require the armed might of a State to force people to honor it?’ If it be the former, it is property(2) and represents liberty; if it be the latter, it is property(1) and represents theft.}} * [[Those Wacky Nazis]] -- Namely, [[Ghostapo]]: ({{spoiler\|the Nazis that attack the Ingolstadt Rock Festival are a SS squadron who collectively committed suicide and was then revived as Zombies by the Illuminati}}). * [[Trading Card Lame]] -- The ''Illuminati'' card game (1981) and ''Illuminati: New World Order'' trading card game (1995), both from Steve Jackson Games, were inspired by the series, but are not based on it per se. (They are instead based on real-world conspiracy theory, public domain documents like the [[Principia Discordia]], and other non-copyrighted material.) Wilson reportedly harbors an intense dislike for [[SJ Games]]. Line 118 ⟶ 117: [[Category:The Seventies]] [[Category:Illuminatus]] [[Category:Literature]] [[Category:Cult Classic]] [[Category:Literature of the 1970s]] [[Category:Literature of the 1980s]]