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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick | Philip K. Dick
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"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasnt a legend and he wasnt mad. He lived among us, and was a genius."Jonathan LethemBased on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dicks brilliant, and epic, final work. InThe Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dicks life and work. The e-book includes a sample chapter from A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick.
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Bibliobear
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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.“

Remembering Philip K. Dick on his birthday.

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Bookwomble
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Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power.

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Spooky87

"Hold on, to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you‘re not alone
'Cause I‘m going to make this place your home" - Home, Philip Phillips Just wanted to say #Hello to the community. My Snapchat is: spookylilly ;P

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Genrebending
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I'm on page 83, and it continues to be one of the strangest reading experiences of my life

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