A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future
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The central theme of Adjustment Team is that reality is malleable and changeable and that there is a team of bureaucrats whose role it is to make small ‘adjustments’ to ensure that this reality runs smoothly and to plan.
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"The Blue Men of Time", Twilight Zone? Sounds very familiar.
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The hollow men, he thought. We should have looked up poetry.’
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‘I’m not much but I’m all I have.’
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ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.’
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‘orthogonal’. The term literally means ‘right-angled’ but by extension has come to refer to something that acts separately or independently from other factors.
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cryptomnesia?
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What a cryptic name for the wonder of recall.
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‘Everything in life is just for a while.’
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In order to accommodate his own extreme beliefs, his more rational personality has split off and acts as a dispassionate observer of seemingly crazy behaviour.
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Therr are no more rational personalities left in this universe.
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if I weren’t so well integrated, I’d be out of my mind!”’
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It is we who do the moving, not time.
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It’s called anamnesis, which was the loss of amnesia. You remembered your origins, and they were from beyond the stars.’
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So I experienced first spaces too small and then spaces too large.’