Bender's insights help us understand the psycho-spiritual logic of Dick's endless hypotheses, and they cast light as well on Dick's obsessions with temporality and “orthogonal time.” After all, the refusal or impossibility of interpretive resolution extends the enigmas of experience into both the past and the future, subtly interleaving the time of the event with textuality itself. This renders the process of exegesis at once interminable and ecstatic, a pharmakon both poisonous and intoxicating.
