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I just reread Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and really loved it; much more than I did as a teenager. I'm not sure what I should take away from the ending, though. How should I feel about the androids? How should I feel about Deckard?Is it a good ending for him, to accept that what he does is wrong but necessary? Has he figured out how to have empathy for the andies and still kill them? And what does it mean for him to have become Mercer?
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>>9752749
>what did i think
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>>9752765
Okay:
I thought that PKD makes you waffle on the humanity of the androids untiljust before the final showdown, when Pris cuts the legs off the spider and can't even comprehend why it upsets Isidore. Before that I wanted to think they were basically just a step removed from humans, but after that they seem pretty alien.
I think Deckard comes to exactly the conclusion I just mentioned. He says something about how"Even electric things have lives. Paltry as they are."It's a little hard to totally grasp his state of mind at the end, because some of what he says and thinks is in pretty stark contrast to what he just did. But that seems to be the point, I guess.
As for the Mercer thing, I don't have a clue.
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>asks people on 4chan what he should think
>asking anybody but your fatherfigure tutor what you should think
desu...
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>>9752827
I also completely forgot about the other police department, that was such a trip.
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