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Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said"
    #5512186 - 04/13/06 12:25 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

"I remember once when I first smoked pot from a waterpipe rather than a joint. It, the smoke, was cool, and I didn't realize how much I had inhaled. All of a sudden I died. For a little instant, but several seconds long. The world, every sensation, including even the awareness of my own body, of even having a body, faded out. And it didn't like leave me in isolation in the usual sense because when you're alone in the usual sense you still have sense data coming in even if it's only from your own body. But even the darkness went away. Everything just ceased. Silence. Nothing. Alone...

...Anyhow, it wasn't like fainting; I didn't feel I was going to fall, because I had nothing to fall with, no body . . . and there was no down to fall toward. Everything, including myself, just expired. Like the last drop out of the bottle. And then, presently, they rolled the film again. The feature we call reality."

"Were you frightened about it?"

She nodded. "Consciouness of unconsciousness, if you dig what I mean. When we do die we won't feel it because that's what dying is, the loss of all that. So, for example, I'm not at all scared of dying anymore, not after that pot bad trip. But to grieve; it's to die and be alive at the same time. The most absolute, overpowering experience you can feel, therefore. Sometimes I swear we weren't constructed to go through such a thing; it's too much - your body damn near self-destructs with all that heaving and surging. But I want to feel grief. To have tears."

"Why?" He couldn't grasp it; to him it was something to be avoided. When you felt that you got the hell out fast.

"Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. In some fashion you split with yourself and accompany it, go part of the way with it on its journey. You follow it as far as you can go."



I liked that.


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-Erik Davis


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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" *DELETED* [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5512193 - 04/13/06 12:27 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" *DELETED* [Re: Scott Bennett]
    #5512196 - 04/13/06 12:29 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" [Re: Scott Bennett]
    #5512201 - 04/13/06 12:30 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

For the past 3 days I've lowered my WoW playing to a total of 2 hours and instead have read 145 pages. Feels good.


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-Erik Davis


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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5512402 - 04/13/06 01:44 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I like the quote in my sig too. :thumbup:

I've only read Valis, but will start reading more of his soon.  Valis was fantastic!


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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #5512403 - 04/13/06 01:44 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I have sigs turned off...what is it?


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-Erik Davis


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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5512405 - 04/13/06 01:45 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick


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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #5512406 - 04/13/06 01:45 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Nice. The quote in my sig is also from Dick.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis


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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #5512422 - 04/13/06 01:51 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Cool, what I enjoyed about PKD was his "real" writing, especially in his dialouge.  He really is the first science fiction write I've read that sounded like the world might really sound like in the future.  I've attempted to read two different Robert Heinlein novels and the dialouge is so fucking cheesy and fake, it makes me want to puke.  No swear words, nothing, just incoherant nonsense that sounded like I was reading something in church.  Valis on the otherhand was beautifully written.  I like my science fiction to be realistic.  :smile:


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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5512442 - 04/13/06 01:58 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

This post reminded me that I had a copy of Dick's "A Scanner Darkly" laying around on my HD.

Free for the taking if anybody wants it.

http://www.geocities.com/xthejamaica/pkd-a_scanner.zip


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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #5512586 - 04/13/06 02:54 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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McKennaDMT said:
Cool, what I enjoyed about PKD was his "real" writing, especially in his dialouge.  He really is the first science fiction write I've read that sounded like the world might really sound like in the future.  I've attempted to read two different Robert Heinlein novels and the dialouge is so fucking cheesy and fake, it makes me want to puke.  No swear words, nothing, just incoherant nonsense that sounded like I was reading something in church.  Valis on the otherhand was beautifully written.  I like my science fiction to be realistic.  :smile:




I agree with you absolutely about his writing.

He has ways of making everything seem like factual fiction.

In Flow My Tears, the policeman from the title turns in his chair at one point, lets out a little fart, and then continues talking to his subordinate.  Dick writes it so that the fart doesn't even stand out.


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-Erik Davis


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Re: Excerpt from Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" [Re: Scott Bennett]
    #5512904 - 04/13/06 04:30 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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ThaiLipaYai said:
The first part also reminds me of this time when I took a guy up on an offer to have a bong rip after not smoking for over a year.  He loaded a bowl with "AK-47" and topped it off with kif.

I said I would take one big rip and that was it.  I ended up smoking the entire bowl in one rip.  I hacked my lungs up for what seemed like 5 minutes.  Upon standing I had to sit back down.

By far the most intense high I have ever had, generated by marijuana anyway.




sounds like fun :thumbup:


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