While the Illuminatus was a confusing, lsd-induced ride through time and various viewpoints, Schroedinger's Cat streamlines the POV shifts. Obviously Robert Shea's part in the first volume added a certain "fuzziness" to the narrative. Wilson writing alone is easier to follow. The book follows movement between universes as the previous ones are destroyed every hundred pages or so. The only constant: a dismembered penis that once belonged to a man who underwent a sex change operation. Men become women, women become men, and scientists do whatever they please. Brilliant, daring, the words are not sufficient to describe this masterpiece.