Life which we can no longer distinguish; life carefully bur… - Philip K. Dick

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Life which we can no longer distinguish; life carefully buried up to its forehead in the carcass of a dead world. In every cinder of the universe Mercer probably perceives inconspicuous life. Now I know, he thought. And once having seen through Mercer’s eyes, I probably will never stop.

Philip K. Dick

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? · June 1, 1996 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Philip Kindred Dick (16 December 1928 – 2 March 1982) was an American writer, whose published works mainly belong to the genre of science fiction. Dick explored philosophical, sociological and political themes in novels with plots dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus tended to reflect his personal interest in metaphysics and theology.

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Pen Names: Richard Phillipps • Jack Dowland

Birth Name: Philip Kindred Dick

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Alternative Names: PKD • Philip Dick • Richard Phillips • Filip K. Dik

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Life which we can no longer distinguish; life carefully buried up to its forehead in the carcass of a dead world.

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...this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition.

We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.

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