Philip K Dick :: Valis :: Part 01 :: Chapter 02 :: Audiobook
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2013
- VALIS is a 1981 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of one aspect of God.
It is the first book in the VALIS trilogy of novels including The Divine Invasion (1981), and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), VALIS represents Dick's last major work before he died.
Horselover Fat believes his visions expose hidden facts about the reality of life on Earth, and a group of others join him in researching these matters. One of their theories is that there is some kind of alien space probe in orbit around Earth, and that it is aiding them in their quest. It also aided the United States in disclosing the Watergate scandal and the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974. There is a filmed account of an alternative universe Nixon, "Ferris Fremont" and his fall, engineered by a fictionalised Valis, which leads them to an estate owned by the Lamptons, popular musicians. Valis (the fictional film) contains obvious references to identical revelations to those that Horselover Fat has experienced. They decide the goal that they have been led toward is Sophia, who is two years old and the Messiah or incarnation of Holy Wisdom anticipated by some variants of Gnostic Christianity. She tells them that their conclusions are correct, but dies after a laser accident. Undeterred, Fat goes on a global search for the next incarnation of Sophia. Dick also offers a rationalist explanation of his apparent "theophany", acknowledging that it might have been visual and auditory hallucinations from either schizophrenia or drug addiction sequelae.
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"...when you are crazy, you learn to keep quiet..."
When you use your mind and refuse to keep quiet, you learn you are crazy.
I think it is profound that Fat’s conclusion upon the Doctor treating him like a human being, is that the Doctor is also insane. As if empathy is conditional upon a shared view of reality in a way. And that since the Doctor is similar in his view and willing to hear Fat out, that allows him empathy and thus makes him insane. Or it could be the opposite, where one leads to the other. It’s thematically significant either way, in my view.
Thanks. Um tryin to keep up. And git current
Time becomes space and space then become times- like the eternalality and duality of a space /time mobius neural strip - consciousness thus occurs for infinitum
a 'real' alternative to dwelling on an old book.
The Empire Never Ended
its mad that one knows about this guy he came up with a lot of the sci fi books in we see today.
Gary Marshall everyone knows this guy
What? Bro
@@conantroutman76 responding to 2017 from 2021, I know he was gone on to be influential and finally to be seen as a visionary. But, he's still not talked enough about
at 44, the power of the authority in a lab coat to confirm or deny one's view of reality.