[UA] Andy Warhol's Cagliostro

[Ysidro]

Marc Beckhaus wrote:
> 
> Aloha,
> 
> Greg Stolze wrote:
> >
> > Hm, maybe it's just because I re-read "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
> > yesterday, but how about if the pranksters made up the idea that there's
> > this rare Warhol Cagliostro film... and then run into evidence that it
> > EXISTS.  Did they actually force it into being (like a nonentity, kinda) or
> > just force the evidence into being, or is someone spoofing the spoofers?
> 
> Now this sounds quite a bit like Umberto Eco's "Il pendolo di
> Foucault". Don't ask me about the English title for the book.
> Three Italian lectors find a coded document, supposedly written
> by the Templars in the 14th century, and use it as a starting
> piece for a kind of intellectual puzzle. In the end, they invent
> the world conspiracy to explain their musings and, lo and behold,
> one after one, people start dying.
> 
> Is it postmodern? I don't know (and I don't really care). But is
> it UAble? Hell yes.
> 
> Go ahead, give it a try. And don't be intimidated by the first
> few chapters.
> 
> Read ya later,
>         Marc
> 

"Foucault's Pendulum"  An excellent book that's been discussed before. 
I believe Mssr. Tynes has also mentioned it ruined the standard
occult/conspiracy genre and led to the creation of Unknown Armies'
postmodern occultism.

Greg Maroda
-- 
Penn-Ohio Historical European Martial Arts Society
http://www.telerama.com/~ysidro/pohemas.html

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