As I cabled over Nob to San Francisco's Station 'O' Post Office I
couldn't help but wonder at Goddess' hand in assigning street
addresses to Her outposts. Mal2 had told me that Good Lord Omar
always filed everything under "O" for OUT OF FILE.
"Maya is marvelous" I was thinking when I rapped on the little
metal door and was greeted warmly by a huge beard who introduced
himself as Professor Ignotius. He ushered me into a spacious wood
paneled and tapestry hung parlor where three others were laughing
and passing around a wine jug. The sunny one in a tunic was the
Reverend Doctor Occupant, the trim khaki and jeans was Mad Malik
and the wine jug claimed to be Hill. I got the recorder on....
GYPSIE SKRIPTO [in response to a question]: ...1969 but only briefly. I
guess I missed you guys.
MAD MALIK: No wonder, he was pretty much a one man show then.
We were just his students and were usually off on errands. You
worked for the Poop?
Gypsie: Well, for one night anyway. The interview is in the
Principia.
REV. DR. OCCUPANT: Malik was the only one he would ever let write
for the Poop or get on the letterhead.
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Gypsie: Did you [Malik] have higher authority than the others?
Malik: No, [but I was allowed to speak in the POOP] because
[Malaclypse the Younger] hated politics. He was infuriated with
Johnson and Nixon over Viet Nam because it was turning the
renaissance into a political revolution and was stealing his sacred
thunder. So he trained me in Zenarchy, which he learned from Omar,
and I was the official anarcho-pacifist for the Cabal. Also I was
liaison to The Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria, the Chicago
Discordians. Later Omar activated the Hung Mung Cong Tong and ELF,
on zenarchist principles, and also Operation Mindfuck. I was also into
those. Though at the time I was masquerading in Greater Poop as a
cremated cabbage to throw off the FBI.
Gypsie [to Hill]: Since you wrote it, I take it you are an anarchist?
G.H. Hill: Since then I have given up anarchy. Too many rules--hating
the government and all that stuff.
IGNOTUM PER IGNOTIUS: It's like hating your own fantasies.
Malik: [Anarchy] is also standing up and proceeding forward, fantasy
rule or not. The condition is the same.
Occupant: Brother needs some wine!
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