Realityisthatwhich,whenyoustopbelievinginit,doesntgoaway.VALIS(1979) PhilipKindredDick(19281982)Weareservedbyorganicghosts,hethought,who,speakingandwriting,passthroughthisournewenvironment.Watching,wise,physicalghostsfromthefulllifeworld,elementsofwhichhavebecomeforusinvadingbutagreeablesplintersofasubstancethatpulsateslikeaformerheart.Ubik

He was a religious visionary whose theology was articulated in his science fiction novels, a Gnostic thinker who doubted the reality of the world around him, a paranoid who believed the CIA was tapping his phone, a pill addict who wrote antidrug novels, a literary philosopher who read James Joyce while pumping out scifi potboilers, an awardwinning genre novelist who yearned for the accolades of the mainstream market, and a profound lover of women who couldn’t keep aġ.5.9.Novels/Stories/ Prone to psychosomatic disorders, he also suffered from agoraphobia, depression, suicidal tendencies, and exhibited violent behavior to at least one of his wives. Immensely talented, he was arguably a genius; and yet he was deeply troubled all his life. Dick was a complex man about whom many things can be said. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the fulllife world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.” – Ubik (1970) “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn ’t go away.” – VALIS (1979) PRELUDE Philip K. Credits Philip Kindred Dick (19281982) “We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment.

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