Collecting discord.

• Author: Walker, Jesse
• Position: Briefly Noted - Brief article - Book review

Adam Gorightly's blog Historia Discordia is devoted to the Discordians, a gang of antiauthoritarian pranksters who, among other activities, seeded the press of the 1960s and '70s with hoaxarticles blamingthe Illuminati for the world's evils. Gorightly has posted a trove of ephemera from the Discordians 'glory days, ranging from a membership card in the John Dillinger Died for You Society to a 1970 Playboy story.

The Playboy piece is unsigned but was probably written by Robert Anton Wilson and/or Robert Shea, two Discordians who were editors at the magazine and who would later...