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by Philip K. Dick
© 1981 by Philip K. Dick
Excerpt from The
Pre-Socratics by Edward Hussey. Copyright © 1972 by Edward Hussey.
By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. Excerpt from The Introduction
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To Russell Galen,
Who showed me the right way.
VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living
Intelligence System from an American film): A perturbation in the
reality field in which a spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic
vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its
environment into arrangements of information, characterized by
quasi-consciousness, purpose, intelligence, growth and an armillary
coherence.
-Great Soviet Dictionary
Sixth Edition, 1992
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It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense
you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense. In
the VW Rabbit as I had listened to Linda and Eric rattle on
about being three-eyed people from another planet I had
known they were nuts. This made me nuts, too. The realization
had frightened me: the realization about them and about
myself.
"There is no 'Zebra,'" I said. "It's yourself. Don't you
recognize your own self? It's you and only you, projecting your
unanswered wishes out, unfulfilled desires left over after
Gloria did herself in. You couldn't fill the vacuum with reality
so you filled it with fantasy; it was psychological compensation
for a fruitless, wasted, empty, pain-filled life and I don't see
why you don't finally now fucking give up; you're like Kevin's
cat: you're stupid. That is the beginning and the end of it.
Okay?"
You
said it yourself: the universe is irrational because the mind
behind it is irrational. You are irrational and you know it. I am.
We all are and we know it, on some level. I'd write a book
about it but no one would believe a group of human beings
could be as irrational as we are, as we've acted."
"Sometimes I dream --"
"I'll put that on your gravestone."
-- Valis,
by Philip K. Dick |
A Scanner
Darkly, by Philip K. Dick
Clans of the Alphane Moon, by Philip
K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,
by Philip K. Dick
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, by Philip K.
Dick
Lies, Inc., by Philip K. Dick
The Divine Invasion, by Philip K.
Dick
The Preserving Machine, by Philip
K. Dick
Vulcan's Hammer, by Philip K. Dick
The Philip K. Dick
Reader, by Philip K. Dick
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