Re: virus: Table> Kerry Thornley R.I.P. (fwd)

sodom (Sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Wed, 02 Dec 1998 15:21:29 -0500


While Robert Anton Wilson's and Robert Shae's book "The Illumanitus
Trillogy" is indeed awesome - I had thought that all the people who had
unwittingly confused it with reality had all but disappeared. Indeed the
conspiracy meme is still as strong as ever.

I am indeed sorry that another imagination has slipped over the brink
though. Bummer.

Bill Roh
Sodom

Eva-Lise Carlstrom wrote:

> I thought some people on the list might want to know about this.
>
> --Eva
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:40:15 -0600 (CST)
> From: Scott 'Blade' Hamilton <hamilton@math.grin.edu>
> Reply-To: table-l@lists.io.com
> To: table-l@lists.io.com
> Subject: Table> Kerry Thornley R.I.P. (fwd)
>
> From: Kynola Bier <elestrious@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Kerry Thornley R.I.P.
>
> It is my sorrowful duty to report the loss of the Discordian Nonprophet
> Kerry Thornley, also known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst and Ho Chi Zen,
> co-author of the Principia Discordia, and my dearest close personal
> friend.
>
> Kerry went into cardiac arrest after an extended illness at Crawford
> Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, November
> 28, 1998. Efforts to rescusitate him continued until approximately 1:15
> a.m. when he was pronounced dead.
>
> His remains will be cremated and arrangements are underway for a private
> memorial service for those known to be personal friends and family
> members.
>
> Towards the end of his last visit to Little Five Points, when he was
> ready to go home, he said he felt "like a tired child home from a very
> wild circus," alluding to his favorite passage from the Principia,
> penned by his co-author, Malaclypse the Younger, Greg Hill:
>
> "And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is
> that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder
> them, and so it shall be that Non-existence shall take us back from
> Existence, and that nameless Spirituality shall return to Void, like a
> tired child home from a very wild circus."
>
> HAIL ERIS!
>
> Sondra London
> The Erisian Elestria, Horrendest Discordian
> http://www.sondralondon.com/Elestria/Eris.html
>
> ********
>
> Kerry recently painted a portrait of Malaclypse the Elder, whom he
> described as on his way to Cairo to become a Cairo Practor:
>
> http://www.sondralondon.com/new/thornley/mal.html
>
> Please visit the rest of the Kerry Thornley website including the
> introduction to Kerry's book, Confession to Conspiracy to Assassinate
> JFK. The entire book will be posted as soon as possible.
>
> http://www.sondralondon.com/new/thornley/thornley.html