History Literature / Illuminatus

*** [[WordOfGod Wilson]] had been a huge admirer of Rand's in his youth, and the quite savage parodies of her work in this trilogy were in part a TakeThat to his earlier self. (Lampshaded when one character reads the Rand parody ''Telemachus Sneezed'' and believes every word, until he starts to apply his critical judgment to it.)

* TheAllConcealingI -- Much of the first-person narration is revealed at the end to be from the perspective of [[spoiler: a third-person omniscient narrator in a fiction novel]].

* AncientConspiracy -- subverted. [[spoiler:While several conspiracies claim to be ancient, none of them are more than 250 years old, and the only organization that really is as old as it claims is more of an AncientTradition than a conspiracy]].
* AncientTradition -- The Erisian Liberation Front.

* AppleOfDiscord -- Turns out it works on [[{{Ghostapo}} Nazi zombies]].
* ArcNumber -- 5, 17, 23

* ArtisticLicense:Biology -- Howard and his friends are alternatively referred to as dolphins and porpoises. They are, in fact, biologically distinct species.
* TheAtoner -- [[spoiler: Gruad the Greyface, a.k.a. the Dealy Lama]], is either this or a HeroWithBadPublicity, depending on who you ask. Of course, if you ask him, he'll probably tell you that he's actually a VillainWithGoodPublicity -- we ultimately learn that he engineered his own bad publicity as part of being TheAtoner.
* AuthorTract -- A lot of the book is blatant antiauthoritarian ranting. But SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
* BavarianFiredrill -- Trope Namer.

* BettyAndVeronica -- arguably Stella and Mavis, for George. Subverted in that they [[spoiler:turn out to be the same person - or rather Goddess]].
* BrownNote [[color:white:fnord It is hinted that the actual fnord word is not fnord, but some word people actually fnording use, with the same effect.]]
* CargoShip -- An in-universe example in [[spoiler:Leviathan/FUCKUP]]
* TheChessmaster -- [[spoiler:Hagbard]]

* ColdWar -- The story opens with the US, China and the USSR on the verge of incinerating the planet for downright trivial reasons.

* ConspiracyKitchenSink -- [[spoiler: to the extent that every other conspiracy theory/mindfuck is laughable once you grasp ''Illuminatus!'' Seriously. This is the book whose appendices included the line "We have mentioned only one real conspiracy; this book is part of it" [paraphrased].]]

* CosmopolitanCouncil -- Since it's UsefulNotes/{{Discordian|ism}}s, the funny costumes were probably just for laughs. [[MindScrew Probably]].
* CounterEarth -- The leaders of the Illuminati may have originated on a counter-Earth named Vulcan and come to Earth on flying saucers from Mars via Saturn.
* CynicalMentor -- The Dealy Lama (AKA [[spoiler:Gruad the Greyface]]), who lives beneath [[WhoShotJFK Dealy Plaza]].
* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent -- Tobias Knight goes this trope one better, being described as the only quintuple agent in the history of espionage.
* EldritchAbomination -- In addition to the [[EnergyBeings Lloigor]], there's also the Leviathan, a [[{{Kaiju}} mountain-sized]] single-celled life form that's lived in the oceans since the [[TimeAbyss Precambrian Era]].
* FakeoutEscape -- The explanation provided for Dillinger's escapes from prison.
* FunWithAcronyms -- Two examples are an ultra-right-wing group called the ''[[SdrawkcabName Knights of Christianity United in Faith]]'', and a computer named the ''First Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultramicro-Programmer''. There's also two right wing organizations whose acronyms are WHORE and TWAT. One of the many groups holds its meetings on Lake Shore Drive "because of the acrostic significance".

* GeneralRipper -- Pretty much everyone in ThePentagon is presented like this.
* TheGovernment -- It's worth noting that ''Illuminatus'' was originally written before the Watergate scandal, although it was revised somewhat afterward. It was also revised after the publication of ''GravitysRainbow'' in order to insert {{Shout Out}}s to Pynchon's novel. (Incidentally, ''Gravity's Rainbow'' was ''also'' revised after Watergate - the epigraph of that novel's fourth section had been a quote from Joni Mitchell's "Cactus Tree" in the galley sent out to reviewers before the publication of the novel, but in the aftermath of Watergate it was changed to Richard Nixon saying [[FlatWhat "What?"]] for the final edition).
* HistoricalDomainCharacter -- Creator/WilliamSBurroughs and Creator/AllenGinsberg appear in a scene set at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Party convention.
* IronicEchoCut -- The paragraphs introducing the US president, the Soviet premier, and the Chinese premier are word-for-word identical, and all end by comparing the one to the other two.
* JustForPun -- Fission Chips a.k.a. 00005, a Film/JamesBond {{expy}}.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo -- The novel ''Telemachus Sneezed'', a parody of ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'', which asks the question "What is John Guilt?" ''Atlas Shrugged'' is mentioned several times itself, however. ''Telemachus Sneezed'' might be a thought experiment on what would have been the result if Ayn Rand had focused her interest in Ancient Greek philosophy on Heraclitus instead of Parmenides and Aristotle. It's an interesting fact however that ''Atlas Shrugged'' is anti-government, while ''Telemachus Sneezed'' is depicted as definitely pro-strong-government to an extent that it's openly fascist.

* LongList -- The complete listing of the names of the rock bands that are set to play at the climactic Walpurgisnacht concert goes on for quite a while. One of them is Music/{{Nirvana}}.

* MilkmanConspiracy -- One Illuminati front works through controlling [[spoiler: Discordians and anarchists]], while another is led by [[spoiler: the four members of a European teen pop group called "The American Medical Association"]].
* MindScrew -- At just about every possible opportunity. One of the conspiracies involved even has a plan called "Operation Mindfuck" - a reference to a real life Discordian project with the same name, though the novel's equivalent has greater ambition (or possibly just greater resources).
* MoleInCharge -- [[spoiler: Hagbard]] is one of the leaders of just about every conspiracy out there, even though they're all opposing each other.
* MultilayerFacade -- Every ancient secret is actually a cover-up for some other ancient secret. And yes, that same principle applies to pretty much every level, thus creating an infinite loop of TheReveal.
* TheNewRockAndRoll -- Actually, just rock and roll.
* NoFourthWall -- The main characters eventually learn that [[spoiler:they are characters in the book itself, being narrated by an all-powerful, overseeing AI]]. Of course, the book is so perspective-jumping and MindScrew-filled that what the "truth" is is intentionally left up to the reader. In an earlier example, twice in the book the associate editor of "Confrontation" (the magazine that several of the characters are associated with) calls up his book reviewer to ask about the progress of his latest review. The books described by the book reviewer are obviously the ''Illuminatus!'' trilogy itself (for added humor, the book reviewer has nothing but contempt for the trilogy's length, shifting perspective, complicated plot, or frequent use of sex, drugs, and obscene language).
* OldCopYoungCop -- Goodman and Muldoon
* OrderVersusChaos -- A somewhat complex example; while the Discordians are generally viewed as worshiping chaos, they actually believe in balance. It's just that the state of the world is so heavily tilted in the Order direction that the Discordians are forced to take up Chaos to balance it out.

* OutGambitted -- You know the [[AncientConspiracy Bavarian Illuminati]]? Secret organization out to rule the world from behind the scenes? Well, it turns out that [[spoiler:they're the ones who are being manipulated]]. In fact, '''every single one''' of the dozens of [[ThePlan the dozens of plans and predictions]] and [[XanatosSpeedChess all the quick adjustments]] played by the different characters and factions in the book can be interpreted as OutGambitted from one point of view or another.
* TheParody -- One of the characters is a book reviewer who trashes a novel that sounds very much like the trilogy itself.
* PinealWeirdness -- And how.
* ThePlague -- Anthrax Leprosy Mu
* {{Postmodernism}} -- While the book is frequently categorized as Postmodern literature, Postmodernism is deconstructed and parodied throughout. Whether that qualifies as TakeThat or SelfDeprecation depends on how much of the authors' MindScrew you feel applies; however, RobertAntonWilson has published more direct deconstructions of Postmodernism (e.g. ''Maybe Logic''), so it's more likely to be the former than the latter. (Then again, the authors were apparently pretty big fans of ThomasPynchon, one of the seminal Postmodern authors, so take that how you will).
* PrisonRape -- Harry Coin on George Dorn. [[MindScrew Or not.]]

* PublicSecretMessage -- A secret society places personal ads reading "In thanks to St. Jude for favors answered - A.W." as a code to their other members.
* TheRashomon -- Just when, where, why, and how the Illuminati came to be varies wildly depending on who's telling the story. Most agree it started on Atlantis, but the rest is up to debate.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent -- The Ophidians.
* RevealingCoverUp -- Two police detectives get sucked into the story when a left-wing magazine's office is bombed, and they find a collection of notes about the Illuminati in the wreckage. [[spoiler:It turns out the magazine's editor set the bomb, specifically to get one of the detectives on the case.]]

* ScareCampaign -- One of the Illuminati's favorite ways of keeping the masses in line.
* ScrewLearningIHavePhlebotinum -- The AUM drug, sort of. It is ''supposed'' to just increase intelligence, openness and creativity, but a judge who takes it suddenly also has a profound understanding of higher mathematics, communication theory, and set theory.
* SealedEvilInACan -- Yog-Sothoth is imprisoned inside [[spoiler:ThePentagon]], where he's kept dormant by [[spoiler: sacrificing unto him the souls of all the Americans who die in auto accidents every year.]] It gets released near the end.
* ShoutOut -- To ''Literature/PrincipiaDiscordia'' in particular, as well as Creator/HPLovecraft, Creator/AynRand, ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', and numerous others. Some of these might be {{Take That}}s, depending on your reading.
** The Rand one is ''definitely'' a TakeThat - Celine's comments in the appendix (Celine being as close to an AuthorAvatar as there is in the book) make that obvious. There are also several {{Shout Out}}s to ThomasPynchon, especially ''GravitysRainbow''.

* StockNessMonster -- it says something about the nature of this book that a briefly encounter with Nessie is one of the least weird things to happen in it.
* StrawmanPolitical -- several.
* SubmarinePirates -- Hagbard Celine.

* TakeThat -- One example from the appendix (although it is hardly the only one), talking about the difference between property(1), which only exists due to the threat of force, and property(2), mutually agreed upon by all members of society:

* ThoseWackyNazis -- Namely, {{Ghostapo}}: ([[spoiler:the Nazis that attack the Ingolstadt Rock Festival are a SS squadron who collectively committed suicide and was then revived as Zombies by the Illuminati]]).
* TreacherousAdvisor -- [[spoiler: Hagbard ]], to both the Discordians ''and'' the Illuminati.

* TricksterMentor -- Hagbard Celine goes out of his way to make sure his 'disciples' know he's a massive liar who can't be completely trusted. He hopes they'll apply that lesson to other mentors as well.

* UnfazedEveryman -- George Dorn, arguably.
* UnreliableExpositor -- As befits a ConspiracyKitchenSink, taken UpToEleven.
* UnreliableNarrator -- In the beginning, the narrator doesn't know who, what, or when he is as he bounces back in forth in the story through different viewpoint characters, and eventually realizes he's [[spoiler: a third-person omniscient narrator in a fiction novel]].
* WarriorPoet -- Howard the Porpoise.
* WhoShotJFK -- Turns out the Law of Fives applies here too.
* WrongGenreSavvy -- 00005, a Film/JamesBond expy who finds himself in way over his head trying to infiltrate the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Still, when at Fernando Poo, is more aware of the truth behind the event than all the major intelligence agencies.

-->--'''[[MetaGuy Epicene Wildeblood]]''', ''The Eye in the Pyramid''

* JustForPun -- Fission Chips a.k.a. 00005, a JamesBond {{expy}}.

* WrongGenreSavvy -- 00005, a JamesBond expy who finds himself in way over his head trying to infiltrate the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Still, when at Fernando Poo, is more aware of the truth behind the event than all the major intelligence agencies.

->''It's a [[DoorStopper dreadfully long monster of a book]]... and I certainly won't have time to read it, but I'm giving it a thorough skimming. The authors are utterly incompetent—no sense of style or structure at all. It [[GenreRoulette starts out as a detective story, switches to science-fiction, then goes off into the supernatural]], and is full of the most detailed information of dozens of ghastly boring subjects. And the time sequence is all out of order in a very pretentious imitation of Faulkner and Joyce. Worst yet, it has the most raunchy sex scenes, [[SexSells thrown in just to make it sell]], I'm sure, and the authors—whom I've never heard of—have the supreme bad taste to introduce real political figures into this mishmash and pretend to be exposing a real conspiracy... If Literature/TheLordOfTheRings is a fairy tale for adults, sophisticated readers will quickly recognize this monumental miscarriage as a fairy tale for paranoids.''

** Also, to a certain degree, Hagbard Celine. Somewhat justified in that Hagbard seems at least to a certain degree to be a parody of Ayn Rand's character [[AtlasShrugged Ragnar Danneskjold]].

* LawyerFriendlyCameo -- The novel ''Telemachus Sneezed'', a parody of ''AtlasShrugged'', which asks the question "What is John Guilt?" ''Atlas Shrugged'' is mentioned several times itself, however. ''Telemachus Sneezed'' might be a thought experiment on what would have been the result if Ayn Rand had focused her interest in Ancient Greek philosophy on Heraclitus instead of Parmenides and Aristotle. It's an interesting fact however that ''Atlas Shrugged'' is anti-government, while ''Telemachus Sneezed'' is depicted as definitely pro-strong-government to an extent that it's openly fascist.

* [[FunWithAcronyms Fun With]] [[strike:[[FunWithAcronyms Acronyms]]]] [[FunWithAcronyms Acrostics]] -- Two examples are an ultra-right-wing group called the ''[[SdrawkcabName Knights of Christianity United in Faith]]'', and a computer named the ''First Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultramicro-Programmer''. There's also two right wing organizations whose acronyms are WHORE and TWAT. There's also at least one Fun With Initialisms moment, where one of the many groups holds its meetings on Lake Shore Drive "because of the acrostic''[sic]'' significance". (LSD can't be pronounced as a word, hence is not an acronym nor an acrostic.)

* LawyerFriendlyCameo -- The novel ''Telemachus Sneezed'', a parody of ''AtlasShrugged'', which asks the question "Who is John Guilt?" ''Atlas Shrugged'' is mentioned several times itself, however. ''Telemachus Sneezed'' might be a thought experiment on what would have been the result if Ayn Rand had focused her interest in Ancient Greek philosophy on Heraclitus instead of Parmenides and Aristotle. It's an interesting fact however that ''Atlas Shrugged'' is anti-government, while ''Telemachus Sneezed'' is depicted as definitely pro-strong-government to an extent that it's openly fascist.

* MilkmanConspiracy -- One Illuminist front works through controlling [[spoiler: Discordians and anarchists]], while another is lead by [[spoiler: the four members of a European teen pop group called "The American Medical Association"]].

* NoFourthWall -- The main characters eventually learn that [[spoiler:they are characters in the book itself, being narrated by an all-powerful, overseeing AI]]. Of course, the book is so perspective-jumping and MindScrew-filled that what the "truth" is is intentionally left up to the reader. In an earlier example, twice in the book the associate editor of "Confrontation" (the magazine that several of the characters are associated with) calls up his book reviewer to ask about the progress of his latest review. The books described by the book reviewer are obviously the ''Illuminatus!'' Trilogy itself (for added humor, the book reviewer has nothing but contempt for the trilogy's length, shifting perspective, complicated plot, or frequent use of sex, drugs, and obscene language).

** As far as the Discordians are concerned, Order and Disorder are only two aspects of Chaos, which contains everything. They are on the side of Disorder because Order has overwhelmed the society, but they don't plan destroying Order entirely (or believe that they could).

* {{Postmodernism}} -- While the book is frequently categorized as Postmodern literature, Postmodernism is deconstructed and parodied throughout. Whether that qualifies as TakeThat or SelfDeprecation depends on how much of the authors' MindScrew you feel applies; however, RobertAntonWilson has published more direct deconstructions of Postmodernism (eg. ''Maybe Logic''), so it's more likely to be the former than the latter. (Then again, the authors were apparently pretty big fans of ThomasPynchon, one of the seminal Postmodern authors, so take that how you will).

* ScareCampaign -- One the Illuminati's favorite ways of keeping the masses in line.

** He's not really aiming to betray anyone, just teach and illuminate them towards independent, non-destructive existence. In the case of Illuminati he eventually gives up due to their refusal to even try to communicate peacefully with the world.

* UnreliableNarrator -- In the beginning, the narrator doesn't know who, what, or when he is as he bounces back in forth in the story through different viewpoint characters, and eventually realizes he's [[spoiler: A third-person omniscient narrator in a fiction novel]].

--> ''"He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which only the most cunning and ruthless can survive. He was also as kind as was possible for one holding that ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs, unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the National Interest. He still retained some sense of humor, despite the burdens of his almost godly office, and, although he had been impotent with his wife for nearly ten years now, he generally achieved orgasm in the mouth of a skilled prostitute within 1.5 minutes. He took amphetamine pep pills to keep going on his grueling twenty-hour day, with the result that his vision of the world was somewhat skewed in a paranoid direction, and he took tranquilizers to keep from worrying too much, with the result that that his detachment sometimes bordered on the schizophrenic; but most of the time his innate shrewdness gave him a fingernail grip on reality. In short, he was much like the rulers of China and Russia."''

The ''Illuminatus!'' Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and RobertAntonWilson purportedly between 1969 and 1971, and first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, apparently [[{{Postmodernism}} postmodern]], science fiction-influenced adventure story [[color:white:fnord]]; a drug-, sex- and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, which hinge around the authors' version of TheIlluminati. The narrative often switches between third and first person perspectives. [[{{Metafiction}} The third-person omniscient narrator finds these switches, as well as its original non-identity as a disembodied narrator, very troubling and disconcerting at first]]. it also jumps around in time, as do the minds of some of the characters, but by then it has settled down to a point where it is somewhat less evidently self-aware. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, [[UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies anarchism]] and UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}}.

* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar -- The Cult of the Yellow Sign and their vs. the Illuminati.

* CosmopolitanCouncil -- Since it's UsefulNotes/{{Discordian|ism}}s, the funny costume were probably just for laughs. [[MindScrew Probably]].

* {{Postmodernism}} -- While the book is frequently categorized as Postmodern literature, Postmodernism is brutally deconstructed and parodied throughout. Whether that qualifies as TakeThat or SelfDeprecation depends on how much of the authors' MindScrew you feel applies; however, RobertAntonWilson has published more direct deconstructions of Postmodernism (eg. ''Maybe Logic''), so it's more likely to be the former than the latter. (Then again, the authors were apparently pretty big fans of ThomasPynchon, one of the seminal Postmodern authors, so take that how you will).

* AGoodNameForARockBand -- A big list of them in the book.

* LongList -- The complete listing of the [[GoodNameForARockBand names of the rock bands]] that are set to play at the climactic concert goes on for quite a while. One of them is Music/{{Nirvana}}.

-->The error of most alleged libertarians — especially the followers(!) of the egregious Ayn Rand — is to assume that all property(1) is property(2). The distinction can be made by any IQ above 70 and is absurdly simple. The test is to ask, of any title of ownership you are asked to accept or which you ask others to accept, ‘Would this be honored in a free society of rationalists, or does it require the armed might of a State to force people to honor it?’ If it be the former, it is property(2) and represents liberty; if it be the latter, it is property(1) and represents theft.

->''It's a [[DoorStopper dreadfully long monster of a book]]... and I certainly won't have time to read it, but I'm giving it a thorough skimming. The authors are utterly incompetent—no sense of style or structure at all. It [[GenreRoulette starts out as a detective story, switches to science-fiction, then goes off into the supernatural]], and is full of the most detailed information of dozens of ghastly boring subjects. And the time sequence is all out of order in a very pretentious imitation of Faulkner and Joyce. Worst yet, it has the most raunchy sex scenes, [[SexSells thrown in just to make it sell]], I'm sure, and the authors—whom I've never heard of—have the supreme bad taste to introduce real political figures into this mishmash and pretend to be exposing a real conspiracy... If TheLordOfTheRings is a fairy tale for adults, sophisticated readers will quickly recognize this monumental miscarriage as a fairy tale for paranoids.''

* HistoricalDomainCharacter -- WilliamSBurroughs and AllenGinsberg appear in a scene set at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Party convention.

The ''Illuminatus!'' Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and RobertAntonWilson purportedly between 1969 and 1971, and first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, apparently [[{{Postmodernism}} postmodern]], science fiction-influenced adventure story [[color:white:fnord]]; a drug-, sex- and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, which hinge around the authors' version of TheIlluminati. The narrative often switches between third and first person perspectives. [[{{Metafiction}} The third-person omniscient narrator finds these switches, as well as its original non-identity as a disembodied narrator, very troubling and disconcerting at first]]. it also jumps around in time, as do the minds of some of the characters, but by then it has settled down to a point where it is somewhat less evidently self-aware. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, [[UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies anarchism]] and UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}}.[[color:white:fnord]]

The trilogy comprises the books The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple and Leviathan. They were first published starting in September 1975, as three separate volumes, and in 1984 as an {{omnibus}}; they are now more commonly reprinted in the latter form. The trilogy won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction, in 1986. The authors went on to create several works, both fiction and nonfiction, that further discussed the themes of the trilogy, but no direct sequels were produced. Illuminatus! has been adapted for the stage, and has influenced several modern writers, musicians and games-makers. The [[MemeticMutation popularity]] of the word "fnord" and the 23 enigma can both be attributed to the trilogy. It remains a seminal work of conspiracy fiction, predating ''Literature/FoucaultsPendulum'' and ''TheDaVinciCode'' by decades.

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The ''Illuminatus!'' Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and RobertAntonWilson purportedly between 1969 and 1971, and first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, apparently [[{{Postmodernism}} postmodern]], science fiction-influenced adventure story [[color:white:fnord]]; a drug-, sex- and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, which hinge around the authors' version of TheIlluminati. The narrative often switches between third and first person perspectives. [[{{Metafiction}} The third-person omniscient narrator finds these switches, as well as its original non-identity as a disembodied narrator, very troubling and disconcerting at first]]. it also jumps around in time, as do the minds of some of the characters, but by then it has settled down to a point where it is somewhat less evidently self-aware. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, [[UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies anarchism]] and UsefulNotes/{{Discordia}}nism.[[color:white:fnord]]

* CosmopolitanCouncil -- Since it's Discordians, the funny costume were probably just for laughs. [[MindScrew Probably]].

* ShoutOut -- To PrincipiaDiscordia in particular, as well as Creator/HPLovecraft, Creator/AynRand, ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'', ''The LordOfTheRings'', and numerous others. Some of these might be {{Take That}}s, depending on your reading.

* TradingCardLame -- The ''Illuminati'' card game (1981) and ''Illuminati: New World Order'' trading card game (1995), both from Steve Jackson Games, were inspired by the series, but are not based on it per se. (They are instead based on real-world conspiracy theory, public domain documents like the PrincipiaDiscordia, and other non-copyrighted material.) Wilson reportedly harbors an intense dislike for SJGames.

** Cecil Rhodes [[spoiler: coined the expression "Kick out the jams!"]].
*** Which later became [[HistoricalInJoke the basis for the title of MC5's classic punk song.]]

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