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Principia Discordia - the Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 156 pages
  • Publisher: Exposure Publishing (1 Mar 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1846856043
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846856044
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 63,336 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Here we are in 2007 (or YOLD 3173), forty-eight, or forty-nine years after Mal2 and Omar's Discordian revelations at the hands of the Goddess Eris. Principia Discordia has been republished a number of times over the years, but not since 1976 has it been available to the general public in hardback format. Synaptyclypse Generator is proud to present this special edition of the legendary counter-culture classic, the bible of Discordianism. We have spared no cabbage-power in preparing this wonderful hardback edition for your enjoyment and enlightenment. We have done the best we could have hoped to ensure a quality and cherishable version of Principia Discordia. For this edition, we have included Kerry W. Thornley's introduction to the 1991 Illuminet Press edition and Robert Anton Wilson's Loompanics Unlimited introduction. We include all the material from the last Loompanics printing and any odd bits left over from the Illuminet version. We have closing 'Outroductions' by none other than the Rev.Dr Jon Swabey of Apocrypha Discordia fame and 'crackpot historian,' Adam Gorightly, author of The Prankster and the Conspiracy, The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture. It also features the most sumptuously gorgeous cover that any edition has ever had.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Just buy it!, 10 April 2007
Finally! Principia Discordia in hardback! It's about time too. It seems I've been waiting thirty odd years for this version. I've worn out and given away so many paperback copies I have now gifted myself a permanent version. Just check out all those neat little additions too, like the 'outroductions' and the bit about the...

No, I'm not going to spoil it for you. Just buy it!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Improved but still incomplete, 20 Nov 2008
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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These profoundly entertaining scriptures come close to rivaling James Robinson's edition of the The Nag Hammadi Library as the most important contribution to 20th century metaphysics. And not only for those who consider Discordianism as a form - albeit a weird one - of Gnosticism.

Certain passages are more inspiring than others, like The Enlightenment Of Zarathud and Lord Omar's Epistle To The Paranoids, although only the orthodox version of the latter appears here. According to the Samaritan Codex (jealously guarded by a heterodox sect) and the Octuagint there is an additional verse which reads: "Ye erect tall buildings, only to cast yerselves from the rooves."

The same Codex (but not the Octuagint) also contains The Epistle To The Neurotics by St. Euthanasius that sadly didn't make it into this edition. For well neigh 3000 years scholars have been debating its authenticity. The editors of this edition could at least have included it as an appendix.

These minor gripes aside, I do recommend this work to all those who are searching for the meaning of life, the universe and everything. These exegeses by Malaclypse & Omar of the thoughts of Eris, Greek goddess of Chaos, are amusing and thought-provoking. If you appreciate this type of humour, you will love the work of Robert Anton Wilson.
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