Reply #171: Mumbo Jumbo is shorter than the Illuminatus trilogy. [View All]

[Bridget Burke]

(The Trilogy contains a reference to Papa LaBas & his HooDoo Kathedral--from Mumbo Jumbo!) Haven't read Pendulum.

Mumbo Jumbo is snappy & jazzy & the African-American perspective is refreshing. Also out of print--but Amazon has many used copies.

From the book, a poem from the Wallflower Order (Atonists, all of them!):

Look at them! Just look at them!
throwing their hips this way, that
way while I, my muscles, stone,
the marrow of my spine, plaster, my
back supported by decorated paper,
stand here as goofy as a Dumb Dora
Lord, if I can't dance, No one shall.

Dancing, politics, The Teutonic Knights, The Wallflower Order, the Harlem Renaissance & serious VooDoo coming up from Haiti...

(Oh, yeah--Ancient Egypt, too!)