/lit/ - Literature

>>12447865
i don't know, that's a long article. can't exactly find a flaw with PKD. for one thing, he's like the ultimate /acc writer - Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, much else. basically everything he ever written that has been adapted for the screen has been a near-perfect or perfect meditation on the world we are crafting for ourselves. i'm not all that well-read in his fiction, but him and Ballard pretty much have it all, it seems. i'll take a look at that article and post some thoughts later, maybe.

>Though mainly a writer of fiction, PKD didn’t consider himself a novelist, but rather, a “fictionalizing philosopher,” by which he meant that his stories—what have been called “his wacky cauldron of science fiction and metaphysics”—were employed as the medium for him to formulate his perceptions.

i already like this, tho. so many are inclined to say they aren't philosophers, it's kind of nice when you get a writer who says - actually, i am a philosopher. Castaneda alludes to something similar in pic rel (the 'Foreign Installation'). the life of the shaman in general took place far beyond the polis, nor was anything learned there ever transmissable by or to anything like a crowd.

anyways, i'll shut my trap and read that article now. looks good anon, ty most kindly for contributing that to the thread. spot-on.