{"product_id":"masks-of-the-illuminati","title":"Masks of the Illuminati","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis American underground classic is a \u003cb\u003erollicking cosmic mystery \u003c\/b\u003efeaturing Albert Einstein and James Joyce as the ultimate space\/time detectives.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One fateful evening in a suitably dark, beer-soaked Swiss rathskeller, a wild and obscure Irishman named James Joyce would become the drinking partner of an unknown physics professor called Albert Einstein. And on that same momentous night, Sir John Babcock, a terror-stricken young Englishman, would rush through the tavern door bringing a mystery that only the two most brilliant minds of the century could solve . . . or perhaps bringing only a figment of his imagination born of the paranoia of our times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An outrageous, raunchy ride through the twists and turns of mind and space, \u003ci\u003eMasks of the Illuminati\u003c\/i\u003e runs amok with all our fondest conspiracy theories to show us the truth behind the laughter . . . and the laughter in the truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMasks of the Illuminati\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I was astonished and delighted . . . Robert Anton Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity.\"\u003cb\u003e--Philip K. Dick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[Wilson is] erudite, witty, and genuinely scary.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway to a higher consciousness.\"\u003cb\u003e--Tom Robbins\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Wilson is one of the most profound, important, scientific philosophers of this century--scholarly, witty, hip, and hopeful.\"\u003cb\u003e--Timothy Leary\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Dell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943898120423,"sku":"9780440503064","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_e975f826-f579-4ebc-bab1-3a2d8794bc01.jpg?v=1775344643","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/masks-of-the-illuminati","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}