a little screen in his head
20:26 | 01-12-2014 | Conspiracy, Literature | No Comments
забытое интервью [PDF] Филипа Дика журналу Rolling Stone в 1975 году — известное вторжение уже произошло, и в статье полно различных версий и переосмыслений. меня же всегда подкупало вот ровно это:
Dick’s characters are all ultimately small (that is, ordinary, believable) people made big by their stamina in the face of an uncertain world. Dick cares about the people in his books — true, he contrives horrible things to happen to them, but that is in some sense beyond his control; he is like a god condemned to watch his universes fall apart as fast as he creates them, with his poor beloved characters trapped inside — and ultimately we, the readers, empathize with the characters as much as the author does. We share their small triumphs and disappointments; we laugh at their absurd behavior because we recognize their anxieties as our own.
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The relationship between Phil and drugs has always been a bizarre one. He wrote the classic LSD novel of all time, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, in l963, two years before-he took any psychedelic drugs. People who‘ve read the novel (including Timothy Leary, an early Phil Dick fan) find this hard to believe, but I’ve talked to enough of Phil’s friends to be satisfied that it’s true. Phil often describes things best before he experiences them. It‘s a frightening talent when you think about it.