The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

“It’s easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about. Out of the stream of events, left over from the past; right?”

“He will recover his equilibrium,” General Tedeki continued. “In time. Right now he has no standpoint by which he can view and comprehend his act. That book will help him, for it provides an external frame of reference.” “I see,” Mr. Baynes said. He thought, Another frame of reference which might help him would be the Doctrine of Original Sin.