The Invisible Colleges Required Reading List
(aka: Compton's Library)

All 333 issues of Doc Eon
Phil Hine: Liber Null and The Pseudonomicon
Aristotle: On Laughter
Pseudo-Leucretius, De Rerum Anima
Heisenberg and Einsteins Papers
Mandelbrot Fractal Journals.
Lou Krieger: Hold'Em Excellence
Hoyle's Rules of Games
A Beginner's Guide to Thermodynamics,
Karl Jung: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
Time Life magazine on Bobby Fisher
No Logo, Advanced Neurolinguistic Programming (Levels Phi through Rho),
The collected works of Jung,
FORTRAN for Dummies,
Back issues of 2600 and that Yippie Newspaper."
A whole slew of discarded high school textbooks.
Declassified Technocratic manuals from the 1950s, in some aspect or another.
Alistar Crowley: Book of Thoth,
The Nag Hammadi Library, full version
Hypostasis of the Archons (original copy, in Coptic).
Tobin's Spirit Guide,
John Dee: Mysteriorum Liber Primus, Secundus, and Tertius
A hastily photocopied (or scanned) copy of Philip K. Dick's exegesis, eight thousand pages in all.
Several thousand indexed napkins hastily scribbled on by L. Ron Hubbard, from between 1946 and 1984.
‘ Tesla's suppressed theories.
Popular Mechanics Sept 1992
A small collection of romance novels without the cover or copyright information that deal with the adventures of the dashing, romantic pacifist Czar Vargo, and his endless quest to conquer war.
Stolen copies of clinical trials on drugs that didn't make it to the public domain." Ministry of Health
Gideon's Bible. Just for shits. (Stolen: Holiday Inn)
The Golden Bough.
The Illuminatus Trilogy.
The Florentine Codex, in Spanish and Nahuatl.
The June 1979 issue of _Rolling Stone_. The one with the Ramones and Blondie on the cover.
The five-video _Twin Peaks_ collection, in poor condition
Gershom Scholem's _Kaballah_, as well as his half-completed full commentary on the Zohar.
Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science
Deleuze and Guattari: A Thousand Plateaues
Fragments of 1st Century pseudoepigraphic texts, stored in comic book slips:
-The Testament of the Wife of Cain
-The Testament of Esau
-The Testament of Judas
-The Codex Seraphianus
Heraclitus, Thales, Anaximander, Anaxagoras, and Empedocles. - Untranslated Versions of the extant fragments in Miletian Greek
The Apocalypse of Francis Bacon.
Thomas Jefferson's diaries and letters on Spiritualism.
The Tarot of the Golden Dawn.
A filng cabinet full of random polaroids.
Black Mask Magazine's first three years.
Thomas Jefferson's love letters. The originals bought at auction to Angelica Church.
Sayyid Qutb: Milestones
Cookbooks; Elvis's Favourite Recipes, Alice's Brady Bunch Cookbook, Linda McCartney's Home Cooking.
Hunter S Thompson:
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
-Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail
The Western Lands by William Burroughs
The Illuminatus! Trillogy
Schroedinger's Cat
all the Cosmic Triggers, his screenplay `Reality Is What You Can Get Away With', the Historical Illuminati Chronicles..."
Tonguing the Zeitgeist
Jennifer Government
Eight identical copies of `The Catcher In The Rye'. With uncut pages.
A webbed copy of Flatland: http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/flatland/ "Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926)"
Georg Cantor: complete works.
1st generation COBOL programming manuals, printed up on old-school printer paper with the little notches on each side and locked down in binders"
Mark Z. Danielewski : House of Leaves
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
The Davidson Record
The Prince' (Machiavelli),
The Art of War' (Sun Tzu),
On War' (Clausewitz)..."
Dale Carnegie "(How to Win Friends and Influence People)"
" A videocasette labelled '5.5m HW'"
" The Wealth of Nations, I don't know who wrote it.
Cialdini's `Influence'." the 5th edition."
A whole collection of Carl Sagan books."
`Worst Case Scenerio'
A collection of John Zerzan's essays on technology, printed off, with commentary and rebuttals by Christopher Hitchens."
A Palm Pilot with a English-to-Enochian connotative dictionary, programmed by Compton."
Frogs into Princes' and 'The Structure of Magic' Vols. I and II by John Grinder and Richard Bandler,
Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming' by Joseph O'Connor and John Seymour,
Principles of NLP by O'Connor and Ian McDermott,
Words that Change Minds' by Shelle Rose Charvet,
Plans and the Structure of Behavior' by George Miller,
Language, Thought, and Reality' by Benjamin Whorf + JohN Carroll
Language and Mind and Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky.
'Data Smog'.
Books on memetics. "http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/biblio/"
A computer running a petri dish program in which meme structures evolve, mutate, and compete.
Makes pretty pictures. The 'evolving' part is where our trinary chips come into it, though."
Timothy Leary - Surfing the Conscious Nets, The Psychedelic Experience, Design for Dying, Neuropolitique.
PiHKAL: Phenethylamines I have known and loved, a chemical love story, by Alexander Shulgin
Eric Trinkaus & Pat Shipman: The Neandertals
Collected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Hypnotism by Albert Moll. (Antique 1890)
Timothy Findlay: Famous Last Words, Not Wanted on the Voyage (Both misprints)
Don Delillo: Mao II, Libra
Douglas Adams: Hitch Hikers Guide series. Bound in one volume
Sigmund Freud: Interitation of Dreams (Barnes and Nobles discount bin)
Biography of Landor by Sideny Colvin
Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictonary 8th ed.
Michael marshall Smith: Only Forward, Spares, One of Us.
Willaim Gibson: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Monalisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrows Parties, Difference Engine.
E.H. Shepard: World of Pooh
5 Plays by Shakesphere
Evelyn Lau: Fresh Girls and other Stories.
Anias Nin: Delta of Venus, Little Birds, Spy in the House of Love
Anne Rice: Pandora (duct taped shut)
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
Douglas Coupland: Generation X, Microserfs
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, Point Counter Point, Moksha, Doors of Perception, Doors of Perception Revisited.
Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls
Liu Sanders: Dragons, Gods, and Spirits from Chinese Mythology. (Childerns picture book)
Playboy Press: Playboys Girls of Winter: Feb 1999
Mark Kingwell: Dreams of Millenium
Franx Kafka: The Trial
George Orwell: 1984
Frank Herbert: Destination: Void, The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, Dune (mangled) Dune (unread)
John Irving: World According to Garp
John Kehoe: Mind Power: Into the 21st Centuary (Mis-print, all pages are blank)
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Burroughs: Naked Lunch, Junky
B.W. Powe: Outage
Daphine DuMaurier: The House on the Strand
Orson Scott Card: Pastwatch, The Fringers
Margret Atwood: The Handmaidens Tale.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
William R. Goetz: Apocalypse Next
Michael Albert: What is to be Undone.
2 filing cabinets filled with punch cards (2000+ each). 1st cabinet labeled ‘CPU #1 Bootstrap’. 2nd Cabinet labeled ‘CPU #1 Kernal’.
SCO Source manual, c. 1983
AXIOM COBOL: In Applied Terms c1986
Visual Basic: A complete guide. c. 1994
Bookcase full of binders, labled on the spines as ‘ABB Level 2 Control (X)’ (X being vols 1-44)
Spiral Bound manuals for the assembly of the 'Westinghouse 2500 level 1 C&C CPU'
Box full of Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and Windows NT 3,51 Workstation licences.
Photo album of Comptons extended family.
Photo album of amateur porn.