“Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), p. 84

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American author and polymath 1932–2007

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