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Switching to first edition paperback

Another great quote on how PKD composes the novel

This page makes it very clear how perfectly PKD had foreseen the emergence of the new Gnostics like Elon Musk who fear an evil creator, now known as the simulator, but simultaneously believe that we might be able to spy that false creator at work

Neat summary of PKD novel structure according to himself. Seems plausible

Reading the Sutin biography is really changing the way I read PKD

The way Bruce Stevens stumbles into his situation with Susan Faine is perfect and mildly terrifying

I am enjoying this much more than I thought I would. There is certain audacity to the ridiculous premise that is evinced by the detailed consideration shown in the consequences. The speeches of Eleanor and Ted in Chapter 8 are a good example

This book is almost entirely devoid of pedagogy, and I mean that in a bad way

Walpurgis Night is like Last Year in Marienbad

a form of time travel whose engine is ellipsis

Detailed exposition of what makes us mediocre

Next: the Romantics

Book 3

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