History Creator / RobertAntonWilson

* JustForPun: Many of the character names in the ''Schroedinger's Cat'' trilogy, such as [[Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 Bertha Van Ation]], Juan Tootrego, [[UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} Hugh Crane]], etc.

* PunnyName: As noted above (under JustForPun), there are loads and loads of these, with other examples including 'Stella Maris' (one of Celine's crew [[spoiler: and the incarnation of Eris, with it strongly implied that she was also Creator/MarilynMonroe]]), 'Eva Geblumenkraft' (a pun on the alleged Illuminati slogan 'ewige blumenkraft', meaning 'Eternal [[UsefulNotes/TheSixties Flower Power]]'), 'Saul Goodman', 'Markoff Chaney' (AKA [[DepravedDwarf The Midget]]), 'Fission Chips' (a Franchise/JamesBond {{Expy}}; he was born on [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki August 6th, 1945]], and his father became obsessed with nuclear power), '[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indole Indole Ringh]]' (a Hindu i.e., Indian, anthropologist who was studying Native American, i.e., 'American Indian', culture during the climax of ''Illuminatus!''), Nkrumah [[FunWithAcronyms Fubar]] (a Kikuyu shaman who had recently moved to Nairobi, and tried to give the US and Soviet leadership headaches in revenge for almost causing a nuclear war over the island nation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioko Fernando Poo]]), 'Sarsaparilla Godzilla', and '[[UsefulNotes/DrivingStick Manuel Transmicion]]'.

* UnusualEuphemism: In his sexually explicit ''Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy'', Wilson used the names of prominent real-world MoralGuardians for sex acts and organs. The rationale for this was that some of these people claimed that the words were inherently offensive. Wilson reasoned that if it was the words, and not the acts, which were offensive, these same people could hardly find their own names offensive. Interestingly, his replacements include roughly equal numbers of conservative Supreme Court Justices and prominent feminists (who at the time had campaigned against pornography).

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Only three of the planned five books in the Historical Illuminatus Chronicles series were published before his death (although, since the third book came out more than 15 years before his death, it's possible he never really intended to finish it anyway).

* BrownNote: as children, US citizens are conditioned to be unable to consciously read the word 'fnord'[[note]]it is 'explained' in an appendix that the 'actual' word used by the Illuminati is different, with 'fnord' being a stand-in to allow the casual reader to see the word[[/note]] with fear and panic, while subconsciously reacting to it with fear and anxiety. The word is inserted into anything the Illuminati want people to react negatively to. Being able to 'see the fnords' by breaking this conditioning becomes a watchword for becoming aware of the way people are manipulated on a daily basis.

* PunnyName: As noted above (under JustForPun), there are loads and loads of these, with other examples including 'Stella Maris' (one of Celine's crew [[spoiler: and the incarnation of Eris, with it strongly implied that she was also Creator/MarilynMonroe]]), 'Eva Geblumenkraft' (a pun on the alleged Illuminati slogan 'ewige blumenkraft', meaning 'Eternal [[UsefulNotes/TheSixties Flower Power]]'), 'Saul Goodman', 'Markoff Chaney' (AKA [[DepravedDwarf The Midget]]), 'Fission Chips' (a Franchise/JamesBond {{Expy}}; he was born on [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki August 6th, 1945]], and his father became obsessed with nuclear power), '[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indole Indole Ringh]]' (a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sikhism}} Sikh]] anthropologist who was studying Native American culture during the climax of ''Illuminatus!''), Nkrumah [[FunWithAcronyms Fubar]] (a Kikuyu shaman who had recently moved to Nairobi, and tried to give the US and Soviet leadership headaches in revenge for almost causing a nuclear war over the island nation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioko Fernando Poo]]), 'Sarsaparilla Godzilla', and '[[UsefulNotes/DrivingStick Manuel Transmicion]]'.