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drokhole Donating Member (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 03:52 PM
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"The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick"
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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick’s brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick’s life and work.


This seems to have been released with little to no fanfare, so I just wanted to bring it to the attention of anyone who might be interested. If you're a fan of his work, or interested in philosophy, psychology, theology, ontology, the mystical, or even theoretical physics (and much, much more), you should definitely give it a look. I'm only fifty pages in, and it's already been worth the purchase. Theories about what he experienced (and continues to experience) are proposed and denied, altered and combined. He discusses dreams in which he is "given" words in Greek and Latin - words he had never known or come across - and the process by which he discovers their meanings and connections (in a very detective sort of way). There has been a bit of Greek and Roman history/mythology thrown in there, too. It's truly fascinating.
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