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>>9513234
>I'm not sure I'm me

Funny. PKD wasn't sure he was himself, either.

>>9513234
Everything has been written before. I accidentally wrote Huckleberry Finn word for word in Middle School and got kicked out for plagiarism.

>>9513262
This is like getting fired from work "for no god damn reason at all."

>>9513262
Heh

>>9513234
>Implying it's not just the plasmoid activating

Calm down, you'll be back in 5...4...3...2...1...

>>9513294
This post is dithering for me, and probably me only.

>>9513234
OP, you're PKD-ish as fuck.

>>9513234
It seems to me that not only are you you, you're also a hack who is probably only capable of churning out Twilight Zone-tier TWEEST stories. PKD shit out a lot of garbage but occasional managed to pull off something meaningful. Maybe you can too.

>>9513745
Hmm, I'm very hopeful. Thank you.

>>9513234
PKD did sort of tap into a zeitgeist, one that's permeated popular culture, or that pop culture and our modern mindsets have already been permeated by.

This is why when i first read PKD's books I got the sense that I'd already read them or even lived them. In fact, a lot of people have said that PKD's books, in a strange but recognizable way, are just what modern reality is like. PKD even complained of burnt-out acid-freaks accusing him of somehow creating the modern world, with all its bizarrity and strangeness, with his works.

>>9514489
I definitely think that the similarities come from PKD's influence. As I read, and the more I find out about him, it's kind of impossible to not see aspects of his thoughts in all kinds of scifi and future-fiction.

>>9514516
Yeah, true. But even when he was writing, people pointed this out.

For instance (if I'm remembering it aright), he worked on Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said such that he thought it was very futuristic when he wrote it; or maybe it was A Scanner Darkly.

anyway, he wanted to edit it more, and ultimately waited a few years before publishing it even though he had the main stuff in it already.

However, apparently he and a friend/critic of his both agreed that the futurism had become outdated by then. Reality had already pretty much become like the book.

>>9514596
Interesting. I haven't read Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said yet but it's on top of my priorities because of its very cool name. I'll remember to consider this when I do read it.

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>>9513234
"people don't have ideas, ideas have people"

>>9514601
I think it's A Scanner Darkly actually, lmao.

I actually like Flow My Tears much better though and think it's one of his very tip-top best.

>>9514603
PKD was very influenced by Jung.

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>>9514603
they didnt happen to him. he happened.

>>9513262
Like that one kid who wrote that one Balzac story and got in trouble