I just got done watching Radio Free Albemuth which is a depiction of Philip K. Dick's VALIS. What did you guys think about the craaazy story? [spoiler]Philip K. Dick was right[/spoiler]

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Anonymous Sat Jan 9 22:18:19 2016 No.7565295 [Reply] [Original]

I just got done watching Radio Free Albemuth which is a depiction of Philip K. Dick's VALIS.

What did you guys think about the craaazy story?

Philip K. Dick was right

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 22:21:50 2016 No.7565306 >>7565295 He was right. Couldn't finish Valis though it was just exhausting. Do Androids and the Minority Report short story were spot on though. A Scanner Darkly is my favorite book by him. Love that schizo speed-head

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 22:25:58 2016 No.7565321 >>7565295 It's a girl I know's favorite book but I never really cared for PKD

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 9 23:19:55 2016 No.7565526 How am I supposed to take the pseudo-intellectual babbling of Valis? Is it ironic? Is it sincere? Is it a little of both? Who's the voice of reason? Dick or Fat?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 03:02:25 2016 No.7566354 >>7565526 Take everything literally. Dick was massive schizo that was also very compulsive and did drugs up the ass

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 03:11:07 2016 No.7566380 >>7565295 However pretensious and inept in his attempt intellectualize his point, Dick was definitely on to something, at the very least in terms of the deeper intuitions that marginalized people have about what is wrong with society.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 03:19:30 2016 No.7566408 >>7565526 Based on his Exegesis, he did believe all of it, but off and on. His views, just as his drugs, changed constantly and his novels are ways of exploring some of his paranoid/schizoid visions.

Anonymous Sun Jan 10 08:52:07 2016 No.7567019

>>7565526
Both. PKD knew that he wasn't right in the head, that he perceived things that weren't real, and sort of accepted it. But, he also believed that a pink laser from space (obvious hallucination) warned him of his son's epileptic seizure (reality). The fact that this occurred--that something that couldn't be real still had a relationship to reality--pretty much undid any last shred of sanity he had. Then he wrote VALIS.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 10 11:23:32 2016 No.7567430 >>7565321 He's a bad writer. But his ideas are interesting and worthwhile

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