[net.sf-lovers] Music in SF --- ILLUMINATUS!

boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (08/09/85)

> From: Peter Alfke <Alfke.pasa@Xerox.ARPA>

> Also: Wilson & Shea's "Illuminatus!" trilogy had rather a lot of (rock)
> music in it -- the climax takes place at an enormous rock festival on
> the shores of Lake Totenkopf in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, [...]

I read ILLUMINATUS! 10 years ago, but I never noticed it until you
posted this:

"Totenkopf" --- "Deadhead"

An intentional Grateful Dead reference or mere coincidence?

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel Faigin) (08/15/85)

In article <3542@decwrl.UUCP> boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) writes:
>
>An intentional Grateful Dead reference or mere coincidence?
>

C'mon. If you read the trilogy &c, you know that nothing is
COINCIDENTAL. They are (gulp) uh (gulp) no one is behind it. 
Yes, that's right (yes sir, yes sir) no one is behind it.

I don't think I should give my name.


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