#pkd, Philip K Dick, was convinced a tachyon beam from outer space pilots our brains. he wrote 40 novels with many film adaptations... used drugs + suffered strokes that led to his 2 months of visions, "3-4-74". Doctors "baffled", he wrote extensively to Claudia Bush + other admirers, along with 8000 pages of diary. died ~55 from stroke; filled up on water soluble vitamins to make his neurons fire. #literature

Exegesis: distributed effort transcribed and edited. man is lucid. we're left double-feeling, curious+skeptical, at the illustrative Tao, central to a world we can challenge and accept. for Dick, the self is split between essentially dead biological nature/living, animating external force.

versed in the greeks and christian theology. discovers ability to forgive sins, immediately forgives the #cat. such ability may be innate in animals, presuming good intentions from our inarticulate neighbors.

read #faulkner , tom mccarthy Remainder, will#gass kurt #vonnegut #steinbeck pearl