Late
wife of writer
Robert Anton Wilson.
Arlen, who
died in
May 1999, is remembered by many for saying things like (when asked what more than
seventy years of
living had taught her), "
Life is an
unqualified good." Talk about
positive.
She held a
Ph.D in
sociology from
Hawthorne University and wrote, though not as much as her husband, plenty of
poetry and some very
cool commentary -- cool because she could be so
amazingly sarcastic and yet
very sweet at the same time. Rather like
both polarities of
grandmother at once.