Chicago poet and anarchist Franklin Rosemont, one of the inspirations for the character Simon Moon in Illuminatus!
Jesse Walker sends me this quote from the book Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture by Chicago writer Franklin Rosemont:
See also my 2014 interview with Neil Rest, the "real Simon Moon," which has this bit:
Did you know "Wobbly Surrealist" Franklin Rosemont very well? Can you talk about how he provided some of the inspiration for the "Simon Moon" character in Illuminatus! ?
Nope. Didn't know him. When I saw Bob Wilson, probably later in the summer of '76, I diffidently stoked my ego by saying that I recognized a lot of people in Illuminatus! but not myself. He replied, "Simon Moon is a composite." I'm not sure when, but I eventually found out it was himself, Franklin Rosemont, and me.
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