Consideration of Works Past: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

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I am now and have always been your friend– oops. Wait. Got my wires crossed.

I am now and have always been aPhillip K. Dickfan.

I’ve pretty much read most of what he’s written– there may be a couple of novels I haven’t managed to connect with and perhaps a few stories in the compleat works I haven’t gotten to. He had a pretty sizable body of work.

I think of PKD work the same way I think of zenkoansand parables. The parables I’ve read go something like this. The story: goes fa...