that's DOCTOR Illuminatus to you

[lapis_lazuli022]

I'm reading Doctor Illuminatus. It's one of the books I yoinked from a giveaway box and put on my shelf, and then promptly forgot about.

It's not bad. The exposition is a little heavy-handed, and it's your typical "parents move into an old house and a former child resident involves the kids in wacky hijinx"™ plot, but it's the older brother that makes the book worth reading. He will occasionally, just out of nowhere, come out with some really bizarre shit.

Case in point:

Sister:
"And what was all that about living in a dangerous time and having to be certain of us? When he stared at us, I went all goose pimply."

Brother:
"Look, when a teacher stands in front of the class, glares at you and says, 'Right, who shoved a pencil up the classrom hamster's bottom? Own up or else,' you feel like that, don't you? Even though you didn't do it, and you know you didn't do it, you still feel squirmy. It's the same thing."

Comments

[murnkay.livejournal.com]

Oh course I hear Illuminatus and thing Robert anton Wilson. So instantly I assume HE is this Doctor Illuminatus and that just makes the whole CONCEPT .... better. By default.

Yes.

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

FNORD

See...

[agnosticprophet.livejournal.com]

This is why I seriously envy both you AND my stepfather, who works for a newspaper. The book giveaway box. Yum. My SF grabs any Terry Pratchett, but gosh, it must be such a beeeyutiful sight. Ok. I have a monkey on my back, I know this...