The "book" that Wilson and Shea quote their inanities out of to head their chapters actually exists. You can download it at http://23ae.onestop.net/discord/pdfull.html
In the first book of the trilogy, among the many subplots there is a scene where a man is reading a(disparaging)book review aloud, and word is, that scene was put in by Wilson and Shea after the Illuminatus trilogy was rejected by an editor. Supposedly...
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