first edition
1969 & 1970 · Topanga / Venice, CA
by Paul Encimer, Dr. Confusion, Kerry Wendell Thornley, et al
ST. JOHN'S BREAD WEDNESDAY MESSENGER: Volume I, Number I. November 19, 1969. & ST. JOHN'S BREAD WEDNESDAY MESSENGER AND PARANOID FLASH ILLUMINATOR Quarterly Journal: X-tree serious No. FOR [ca. 1970].
TWO ISSUES, published by St. John's Bread Church, Topanga / Venice, California, 1969, [1970], first and only printings. Edited by Paul Encimer. Zine, mimeograph, various paper colors, side staple bound, 8.5" x 11", 22 and 38 un-numbered pages. VERY GOOD CONDITION: with a fitting association to City Lights - both issues were originally mailed to City Lights bookstore in San Francisco with stamps, postmarks, address and penned printed matter on the rear covers, otherwise just some light edgewear, age toning, and the rear cover of one is pulling from the staples, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.
This zine was without a doubt the most out there and influential counterculture voice of the late 1960s. A scarce primary source illuminating Discordia's hippie origins. An exploration of real and imagined spirituality, cabals, psychedelic drug fueled enlightenment, esoteric surrealistic confusion, poetry, fiction, comic paradoxical conspiracies, revealing secret knowledge of Discordianism for your perverse entertainment. Issued on multi hued paper printed on mimeograph machines, its ethos inspired the dawning of the zine age and spawned the Church of the SubGenius and the New Religious Movement.
St. John's Bread publisher Paul Encimer (1938-2021) Discordian name, Dr. Confusion was an early ordained minister of the Universal Life Church. His friend and contributor Kerry Wendell Thornley, Discordian name, Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst was the co-founder of Discordianism and author of Principia Discordia. The first 10 pages of Thornley's poem Illuminati Lady, which Robert Anton Wilson described in Illuminatus! as "an endless epic poem which you really ought to read," is printed herein.
HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA! (Inventory #: 2042)
TWO ISSUES, published by St. John's Bread Church, Topanga / Venice, California, 1969, [1970], first and only printings. Edited by Paul Encimer. Zine, mimeograph, various paper colors, side staple bound, 8.5" x 11", 22 and 38 un-numbered pages. VERY GOOD CONDITION: with a fitting association to City Lights - both issues were originally mailed to City Lights bookstore in San Francisco with stamps, postmarks, address and penned printed matter on the rear covers, otherwise just some light edgewear, age toning, and the rear cover of one is pulling from the staples, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.
This zine was without a doubt the most out there and influential counterculture voice of the late 1960s. A scarce primary source illuminating Discordia's hippie origins. An exploration of real and imagined spirituality, cabals, psychedelic drug fueled enlightenment, esoteric surrealistic confusion, poetry, fiction, comic paradoxical conspiracies, revealing secret knowledge of Discordianism for your perverse entertainment. Issued on multi hued paper printed on mimeograph machines, its ethos inspired the dawning of the zine age and spawned the Church of the SubGenius and the New Religious Movement.
St. John's Bread publisher Paul Encimer (1938-2021) Discordian name, Dr. Confusion was an early ordained minister of the Universal Life Church. His friend and contributor Kerry Wendell Thornley, Discordian name, Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst was the co-founder of Discordianism and author of Principia Discordia. The first 10 pages of Thornley's poem Illuminati Lady, which Robert Anton Wilson described in Illuminatus! as "an endless epic poem which you really ought to read," is printed herein.
HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA! (Inventory #: 2042)
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