Friday, 28 November 2008

Not strictly memetacular

So, the idea behind the page 56 thing is to get the book nearest you, not the smartest one or the one you're reading or the one with the best line. That's what -- oh my, a car crash -- my last post was about. Still, I came across this in The Illuminatus! Trilogy last night, and thought you might be interested:

Besides, he had already formed his own theory about Fernando Poo: he was convinced that BUGGER--Blowhard's Unreformed Gangsters, Goons, and Espionage Renegades, an international conspiracy of criminals and double agents, led by the infamous and mysterious Eric "the Red" Blowhard--was behind it all.


"He" is 00005, a British secret agent. As best as I can tell so far, he's a fairly minor character. Seen Quantum of Solace yet? What did you think?

4 comments:

spiv said...

A few days ago the local cinema was advertising Quantom of Solace. I wonder what that would have been like!

Michael Hudson said...

The fact that you are wondering if a character is minor or not in the Illuminatus Trilogy suggests that you might not quite have got how this book works (or otherwise) yet...

jml said...

That's fair enough. Mostly I'm just sitting back, enjoying the ride and don't care very much if any of it ever makes sense.

Speak YOUR Peace said...

Ha, this is funny. I JUST completed this game on facebook. The closest book to me was the trilogy.
I googled the phrase to see what came up...and here I am.
The Probability Drive is phenomenal in this case!