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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty: August 2011
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty. 8220;Something is wrong. I don’t mean with you or me or with any person. I mean in general." - Ragle Gumm. Saturday, August 20, 2011. Personal Note Thirteen—Goodbye World. Friday, August 12, 2011. Personal Note Eleven—Where the World Ends and Begins. The veils got thinner, but the regular brushes with insanity were a little farther down the road. The pursuit was still on. Was it toward something or away? Could there ever be enough effort? Like a boat lau...
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty: The Virtues of Rationality and Madness
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty. 8220;Something is wrong. I don’t mean with you or me or with any person. I mean in general." - Ragle Gumm. Monday, December 26, 2011. The Virtues of Rationality and Madness. I have read a lot of. A Brief History of Everything. A Theory of Everything. Philip K. Dick. Views from the Edge. The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the me...
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty: “The Gun” (1952)
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty. 8220;Something is wrong. I don’t mean with you or me or with any person. I mean in general." - Ragle Gumm. Tuesday, December 20, 2011. 8220;The Gun” (1952). Look at what he’s done. He’s put us on a planet that is dead except for a mechanical gun which functions “as if” it were living and intelligent. This gun has only one duty—to protect the treasure that is buried within it. This dead planet is earth. Views from the Edge. This is a mournful discovery:.
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty: Eye in the Sky (1957)
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty. 8220;Something is wrong. I don’t mean with you or me or with any person. I mean in general." - Ragle Gumm. Saturday, December 24, 2011. Eye in the Sky (1957). 8220; . . closed worlds that don’t touch on reality at any point.”. 8217; Laws grinned sarcastically; with his hard fist he thumped the wall of the kitchen. ‘It feels real to me.’”. 8220;Maybe we have sunk down into the real reality.”. Terrifying, despite the intent of the author. Instead of psycho...
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty: April 2012
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty. 8220;Something is wrong. I don’t mean with you or me or with any person. I mean in general." - Ragle Gumm. Monday, April 23, 2012. EXEGESIS: A Radically New Reality. Reading Philip K. Dick’s. Is an option, but that decision contains within it some of the essence of the book. Once you know about it, you are in it. Philip K. Dick is a mirror for all who read him. What we get depends upon the angle where we stand when looking in. What follows is my take on ...
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty: October 2011
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty. 8220;Something is wrong. I don’t mean with you or me or with any person. I mean in general." - Ragle Gumm. Sunday, October 30, 2011. There’s even a word for it: “anagnorisis.”. It is a moment of discovery. The moment when you realize that things are not what they seem. Now what could one mean by “things? Monday, October 24, 2011. Personal Note Sixteen—In the Prison of Normalcy. End of biographical posts. Tuesday, October 4, 2011. Views from the Edge.
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty: Horror, Beauty and PKD
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty. 8220;Something is wrong. I don’t mean with you or me or with any person. I mean in general." - Ragle Gumm. Thursday, December 22, 2011. Horror, Beauty and PKD. In their introduction to. 8220;Thus the essence of horror underlies our realization of the bedrock nature of the universe.”. How could Dick make such a terrifying claim, which he says is absolute? And find a deeper resonance with them. First, how do you know that you exist? You can only ask this q...
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty: November 2011
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty. 8220;Something is wrong. I don’t mean with you or me or with any person. I mean in general." - Ragle Gumm. Monday, November 28, 2011. Cracks in a Pretzel. Humanity is suffering from mass psychosis to which we have become so accustomed that normalcy has become its equivalent. The world is perfect as it is. The world is a place within which souls evolve. Heaven is the ultimate goal/reward for human struggle. Neither good nor evil is real. There is no God.
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty: February 2012
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty. 8220;Something is wrong. I don’t mean with you or me or with any person. I mean in general." - Ragle Gumm. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. VALIS: Casting Off (1). You can dive into this book completely innocent as I did. VALIS was my second PKD novel, after. I was warned. So I dove in with my eyes shut. If you go in the back door, however, Horselover Fat will greet you himself. Narrator-Phil warns us about what association with Fat requires: You cannot t...
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty: January 2012
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Philip K Dick: A Voice of Existential Uncertainty. 8220;Something is wrong. I don’t mean with you or me or with any person. I mean in general." - Ragle Gumm. Friday, January 20, 2012. Time Out of Joint (1959). With many Philip K. Dick characters, readers can feel the “leakage” between a character’s reality and their own existential situation. Such a “leakage” might occur in a few scenes extracted from. Time Out of Joint:. What could he possibly mean by “in general? How do we know them? What is going on?