“This is a mournful discovery.
1) Those who agree with you are insane
2) Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
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VALIS | 
“This is a mournful discovery.
1) Those who agree with you are insane
2) Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
Valis
Author: Philip K. Dick
Year: 1981
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
(Picture from article of an Android Philip K Dick in 2005)
An article about top 10 genre-twisting novels makes me wonder if this is what the #booked2019 category for #genrebusting has in mind? Because I‘ve been wondering what it means!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/13/top-10-genre-twisting-novels-alan-...
finally finished VALIS! 💖 it took me longer than i thought- lotssss of information to process... and unfortunately it takes longer to intake & process information via reading versus just receiving it from a pink beam. 😏 but i loved every second of it! 😍 also, the sign of a good book = lots of post-it flags. 😂 now onto the divine invasion... can‘t wait! 👽💕 #myPKDjourney
finally started reading this beauty! 😍 boy, oh boy, was it worth the wait. i‘m in love already! 👽💕✨ #philipkdick #myPKDjourney
happy 90th birthday, philip k. dick! 👽💕 thank you for all you‘ve brought to the world & to my life. 🖤 #myPKDjourney
alright, dickheads! here‘s what i have waiting in the wings. which one should i read next?! 👽💕 *i‘m planning on saving the valis trilogy until the very end of my #PKD journey, but i‘m open to suggestion. 🙂 #myPKDjourney
@Bookwomble here is my Philip K. Dick t-shirt I mentioned. I also have an Ubik t-shirt.
“Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways cannot be known, oh man." Which is to say, "My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me.”
pickDizzyingly layered; demands to be re-read, but not until my head has stopped swimming. Whether you buy in to PKD's religious/philosophical position or not, there's certainly lots to think about and, if you make it through to the end, it will stay with you for a long time. As is usual with PKD, there's much here about the nature and perception of reality and what it is to be human. There's a big chunk of auto-biography and painful honesty. 👇🏻👇🏻
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Can‘t help it... apparently I must always have a sci-fi book in my “currently reading” stack... 💁🏻♀️😍
#BooksWithBohemianYogini #GuiltyPleasure
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
The best, and possibly oddest, character name I can think of is Horselover Fat from Philip K. Dick's VALIS. Horselover Fat is Dick's schizoid alter-ego. Philip in Greek means "horse lover," Dick is German for "fat." I love this character and his beautifully delusional escapades.
"I am not a character in the novel; I am the novel." - PKD
#bestcharactername #booktober
This is my favorite book by PKD. One of the last novels published before his death from a stroke in 1982. The best, most sincere depiction of mental illness I have seen in any novel. Whereas his earlier books are warped, paranoid fantasies, "VALIS" is a mystical quest for spiritual awakening, acceptance, and transcendence. It is a philosophical work that questions the nature of reality and what we might call God. I love this book. #recommendsday
I got so many PKD stacks all scattered around. Them and Conan and Lem and Lansdale and King and rare little Pynchon paperbacks: I could build a fort, and live in it. Also? That's pretty much what I've been doing, my whole life. It's a good fort.
