VALIS
VALIS is the first book in Philip K Dick s incomparable final trio of novels the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity and reality as revealed through a pink laser VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime. Free Download eBook VALIS author Philip K. Dick – kino-fada.fr A question we had to learn to deal with during the dope decade was, How do you break the news to someone that his brains are fried So says the first person narrator in VALIS, Philip K Dick s autobiographical novel of spiritual odyssey, a novel where the narrator begins by laying out the major issues he must deal with as he attempts to gain a measure of sanity along with a sense of purpose and the meaning of life drugs, a desire to help others, the pull of in...Imagine taking a walk in a bad neighborhood and sitting on a sidewalk bench Beside you sits a disheveled homeless person with crazy eyes Despite your best efforts the two of you strike up a conversation Slowly, incredulously, you begin to realize that this crazy person is well read No, this person is educated, well educated and though he goes off on wild tangents and makes seemingly ludicrous claims, his mind is a brilliantly tangled mess, a fecundity of original thought And yet all the Imagine taking a walk in a bad neighborhood and sitting on a sidewalk bench Beside...I was prompted to read this after it popped up in a season 4 episode of LOST Horselover Fat is both the narrator and a third person character He is our everyman through whom we are led in a contemplation of the nature of reality, god and sanity Was Fat really the recipient of a beam of pink light that contained information from god Or is he just a psycho who speaks both as himself and as his alter, andreal ego, Philip K Dick Is god reincarnated in a two year old child Was earth once I was prompted to read this after it popped up in a season 4 episode of LOST Horselover Fat is both the narrator and a third person character He is our everyman through whom we are led in a contemplation of the nature of reality, god and sanity Was Fat really the recipient of a beam of pink light that contained i...Update 5 13 17 I had to dive back into VALIS because certain tales continue to resonate with me and this one is still one of the very most important Who knows Maybe I am just a crazy as PKD because I m obsessed with the perception of reality, holographic universes, the edict of As Above, So Below , and the nature of consciousness Or maybe I m just a naturally curious person that happens to be heavily stimulated by PKD s intelligence, his humility, his sincerity, and his travails.Any way Update 5 13 17 I had to dive back into VALIS because certain tales continue to resonate with me and this one is still one of the very most important Who knows Maybe I am just a crazy as PKD because I m obsessed with the perception of reality, holographic universes, the edict of As Above, So Below , and the nature of consciousness Or maybe I m just a naturally curious person that happens to be heavily stimulated by PKD s intelligence, his humility, his sincerity, and his travails.Any wa...If someone were to make the You seem to like Philip K Dick, and I want to maybe give him a shot, but I don t know where to start because he s written dozens of novels statement my instantaneous response would be, NOT Valis Then I would add I ve only read five or six of PKD s novels and I m giddy with the prospect of reading further into his catalog But no, no, don t start with Valis, or else you may never pick up another PKD book and you d miss out on his masterpieces.PKD wrote Valis late If someone were to make the You seem to like Philip K Dick, and I want to maybe give him a shot, but I don t know where to start because he s written dozens of novels statement my instantaneous response would be, NOT Valis Then I would add I ve only read five or six of PKD s novels and I m giddy with the prospect of reading further into his catalog But no, no, don t start with Valis, or else you may never pick up another PKD book and you d miss out on his masterpieces.PKD wrote Valis late in life From what I can tell, it s one of his most autobiographical and, in turn, over the top works PKD s life was, ah...Philip K Dick s life is divided into two parts by the crippling, yet weirdly productive, breakdown he underwent in February and March of 1974 He was in a bad way at the time His wife and child had left him, he was strung out and exhausted, and coming off pain medication from a wisdom tooth extraction In this delicate state, he opened the door to a delivery girl who was wearing a gold pendant of the Christian ichthys symbol as it caught the sun, Dick experienced a beam of pink light shooting Philip K Dick s life is divided into two parts by the crippling, yet weirdly productive, breakdown he underwent in February and March of 1974 He was in a bad way at the time His wife and child had left him, he was strung out and exhausted, and coming off pain medication from a wisdom tooth extraction In this delicate state, he opened the door to a delivery girl who was wearing a gold pendant of the Christian ichthys symbol as it caught the sun, Dick experienced a beam of pink light shooting ...I he looked in the mirror to find the face of God We are all created in God s image, or so we ve been taught, I he thought But I he saw no God there instead there was fallibility, weakness, hypocrisy, despair, and longing A desire and a need to fool oneself, to compartmentalize so that one part can hide from the other Where is this so called God, I he thought Perhaps God is disguised somehow, in the background or camouflaged in the foreground, a Zebra hidden in plain sight.I he looked I he looked in the mirror to find the face of God We are all created in God s image, or so we ve been taught, I he thought But I he saw no God there instead there was fallibility, weakness, hypocrisy, despair, and longing A desire and a need to fool oneself, to compartmentalize so that one part can hide from the other Where is this so called God, I he t...VALIS Reconciling human suffering with divine purposeOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureIt s often said that one must suffer for one s art They must have been referring to Philip K Dick He slaved away in relative obscurity and poverty at a typewriter for decades, churning out a prodigious flow of low paid Ace and Berkeley paperbacks sometimes fueled by amphetamines , went through five marriages, battled with depression, mental illness and suicide attempts, all culminating in a bizarre VALIS Reconciling human suffering with divine purposeOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureIt s often said that one must suffer for one s art They must have been referring to Philip K Dick He slaved away in relative obscurity and poverty at a typewriter for decades, churning out a prodigious flow of low paid Ace and Berkeley paperbacks sometimes fueled by amphetamines , went through five marriages, battled with depression, mental illness and suicide attempts, all culminating in a bizarre religious experience in 1974, and struggled to come to grips with this for the ...I semi regularly freak out over my own consistency on goodreads What do I do about reading a novel that is contained in a book with multiple novels, what cover do I choose, what about books that I read multiple times, do I keep the original date that I read it or update it to the newest date So many stupid things to waste my time worrying about when there are so many other stupid things I could be wasting my time worrying about For my own peace of mind, I ll state here that I read this book I semi regularly freak out over my own consistency on goodreads What do I do about reading a novel that is contained in a book with multiple novels, what cover do I choose, what about books that I read multiple times, do I keep the original date that I read it or update it to the newest date So many stupid things to waste my time worrying about when there are so many other stupid things I could be wasting my time worrying about For my own peace of mind, I ll state here that I read this book first in May of 2001, and then again in about October 2001, and then a third time this past week, January 2012 No one gives a shit about this, but it seems importan...If you re into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Access Denied Prototype Valis by Philip K DickIs Phil Dick talking about regressing back to former time periods, or the muchradical notion of previous structures existing in the sub strata of reality and emanating forward, like the notion of ancient Rome, a proto ...
- English
- 09 April 2018 Philip K. Dick
- Paperback
- 242 pages
- 0679734465
- Philip K. Dick
- VALIS