Ubik

by Philip K. Dick

“You know that recent Supreme Court ruling where a husband can legally murder his wife if he can prove she wouldn’t under any circumstances give him a divorce?”

“Do you remember dentists?” he asked Al. “I don’t remember, but I know what they were.” “People’s teeth used to decay.” “I realize that,” Al said. “My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in a dentist’s office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It’s happening. The thing I’ve been afraid of all my life.”