Straight Outta Dublin

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>You're always looking for what you can learn from everybody. I've learned something from every writer I've ever read. The strongest influences are certainly Joyce the blind man who saw and Ezra Pound the crazy man who understood. - </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Robert Anton Wilson</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Beyond Chaos and Beyond </em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)><em>Straight Outta Dublin</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)> explores James Joyce's influence on Robert Anton Wilson examining mosbunall of Wilson's work including his novel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Masks of the Illuminati</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)> and his seminal work of non-fiction </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Prometheus Rising</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>. During the last 23 years of Wilson's life he referred readers back to </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Prometheus Rising</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)> over and over again and Wagner explores how Joyce's influence permeates that text. The final section of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Straight Outta Dublin</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)> focusses on the exercises in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Prometheus Rising</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)> which Wilson repeatedly implored his readers to do. Along the way Wagner looks at the influence of Joyce's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Finnegans Wake</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Ulysses</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Dubliners</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)> on Wilson's art and life. Eric Wagner started reading Wilson in 1982 and earned his master's degree in English examining Joyce's influence on Wilson.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>R. Michael Johnson's brilliant analysis in the book's More Notes section offers yet more detail on Wilson's long journey with Joyce. Johnson and Wagner's texts work synergetically to illuminate the Wilson/Joyce Multiverse (WJM patent pending). </span></p><p></p>