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Fanatic: What about the curious, rambling structure of the book?
Robert Anton Wilson: What we were trying to get away from was the assumed omniscience which writers have employed in the past. Nowadays, scientists admit they don't know everything - there's more than one model for what's going on - on the subatomic level or the cosmological level. Liberal clergymen will admit their religion is not necessarily the only true one. And yet novels are written as if there's at once a level at which the novelist knows everything. And the reader is just supposed to accept it. What we've done in Illuminatus! is to give several versions of reality and let the reader decide for himself or herself which one is the most believable. And then people ask us which is our real explanation. Our answer is we don't know any better than anybody else. Everybody should think for themselves.
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