County Kerry Logic

What is County Kerry Logic?

"County Kerry has a six-foot-tall white rabbit called the Pookah, and this rabbit hangs around pubs late at night. When people get thrown out of the pubs at 10:30 (which is when they close), the Pookah waits and grabs one of them on his way home and drags him off into an alternative reality, where all the laws of science are reversed, time and space are all mixed up. It's very much like one of my novels -- although I like this new movie, Jacob's Ladder. And you spend thousands and thousands of years over there -- millenniums -- and you meet Finn MacCool and all the ancient Irish heroes: the Wizard of Oz, Luke Skywalker, Shiva, Krishna, the Devas -- all these figures.

"When the Pookah gets tired of playing with you and lets you go, you're back on the road and it's only a few minutes after you left the pub -- because the Pookah can reverse time, stretch time, condense it, anything like that. ThePookah is not limited by time.

"Of course, the probability of encountering the Pookah is said by Dublin's cynics to be directly proportional to the number of pints of Guinness Stout you had in the pub that night.

"I heard a Kerry farmer interviewed on Irish Radio, ... and they asked him, “Do you believe in the Pookah yourself?”

And he said, “That I do not! and I doubt much that he believes in me either!”

Well, that's a pretty good introduction to County Kerry Logic, which makes more sense to me than, say, Aristotelian logic."

~ Robert Anton Wilson

Thursday, September 29, 2011