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Posted by diogenes on 2024-July-18 14:37:06, Thursday
In reply to Re: Its creators - and ... I didn't think you'd... posted by Manstuprator on 2024-July-18 13:24:38, Thursday
No, I'm afraid you've got it all wrong. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu are named after a shadowy anarchist group of the same name in The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

The Illuminatus Trilogy is not wholly to my taste, but Robert Anton Wilson also wrote the Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, which I found utterly fascinating and very well written.

In Part Six ('The Hanged Man') of the first volume, The Earth Will Shake, there's a really beautiful story of a love between two schoolboys at Eton in the late 18th century ("No part of him that I haven't kissed; no part of me that he hasn't kissed", p. 268, Penguin 1991).

In the second volume, The Widow's Son, one of the boys, John Babcock, has grown up and become a radical MP. He is heterosexual, and genuinely in love with his wife, but finds that he can't keep boys out of his mind. This leads to his having sexual relations with lower class boys. Wilson portrays John as a pederast, a lover of boys - not 'homosexual' or 'gay' - and his portrayal is a deeply sympathetic one. John's struggle with his nature leads to much philosophical rumination:
Ladies and gentlemen of the World's Greatest Christian Empire, I give you Sir John Babcock, defender of the oppressed, champion of liberty, husband of the beautiful Contessa Maldonado, father of the angelic Ursula, owner of God knows how much land here and in Ireland, and clandestine devotee of boy's bottoms. ...

Yes: I am what I am. As a roach is a roach: and a whale is a whale: and a tree is never a tiger: and a fish is a fish and not a rosebush. Every part of nature is necessary or it would not exist, could not exist. Is the House of Commons less natural than an ant-hill? Au contraire, Rousseau: I very much doubt it. "God is no respecter of persons"; the mind behind the cosmos does not share in conventional morality, or it would not have made so many bizarre variations and permutations. Wisdom is to know what you are and accept it. And I do not tailor my politics or my philosophy to the constraints of the mediocre average: why should I try to trim and clip the most vital function of my living flesh to such standards?

I wonder if I really believe any of that?

Anyway, he was an attractive lad, and good sport.

No: more than sport. Love. A kind of love. Or if not love, need, but do not degrade it by calling it mere play. ...

(pp. 284-285, Penguin, 1991)

diogenes
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