“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
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Valisis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being areThe Divine InvasionandThe Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser.Valisis a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime. "The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation--this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and have had him for thirty years."--Ursula K. Le Guin,New Republic
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Philip K. Dick
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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
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“The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”
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“They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.”
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“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out fo...”
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“The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.”
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“Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.”
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“Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back.”
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“This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
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