], [>]
Blake, William, [>]
Blavatsky, Helena Patrovna, [>]
Bly, Robert, [>]
Boehme, Jacob, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bogen, Joseph E., [>]
Borges, Jorge Luis, [>], [>]
Boucher, Phyllis, [>]
Boucher, Tony, [>]–[>]
Bowie, David, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Brown, Frederic, [>]
Brunner, John, [>], [>]
Bruno, Giordano, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Buber, Martin, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bucke, Richard Maurice, [>], [>]
Burroughs, William S., [>], [>], [>]
Bush, Claudia, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Caesar, [>]
Callahan, Harry, [>]
Calvin, John, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Campbell, Joseph, [>], [>], [>]
Capra, Fritjof, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Clarke, Arthur C., [>]–[>]
Clute, John, [>], [>]
Coleridge, Samuel, [>], [>]
Colson, Charles, [>]
Cornford, Francis M., [>], [>], [>]
Crème, Benjamin, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Crick, Francis, [>], [>]–[>]
Crumb, R., [>], [>]
Dante Alighieri, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Darwin, Charles, [>]
Deikman, Arthur J., [>], [>], [>]
Denver, John, [>], [>]
Descartes, René, [>], [>]
Disch, Tom, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Donne, John, [>], [>]
Durant, Will, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Eckhart, Meister, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Edwards, Malcolm, [>]–[>]
Einstein, Albert, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Eliade, Mircea, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Ellison, Harlan, [>]
Elton John, [>], [>]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [>]
Empedocles, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Erasmus, Desiderius, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Eriugena, Johannes Scotus, [>], [>]
Euripides, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Farmer, Philip Jose, [>]
Ferkis, Victor, [>]
Fitting, Peter, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Flannery, Pat, [>]
Ford, Gerald R., [>]
Fosse, Bob, [>]
Fox, George, [>]
Freud, Sigmund, [>]
Galen, Russ, [>], [>]–[>]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, [>]
Graves, Robert, [>]
Hambro, Claudia, [>]
Harding, Esther, [>]
Harding, Warren G., [>]
Harrison, Jane, [>]
Hartshorne, Charles, [>]
Haynes, Jim, [>]
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Heidegger, Martin, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Heinlein, Robert, [>]
Heraclitus, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Herbert, George, [>]
Hiss, Tony, [>]–[>]
Hoffman, E. T. A., [>]
Huizinga, Johan, [>]–[>]
Husch, Gerhard, [>]
Isidore, Jack, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Jaffe, Robert, [>]
James, William, [>]
Jaynes, Julian, [>], [>], [>]
Joachim of Fiore, [>], [>]
Jonas, Hans, [>]
Joyce, James, [>], [>]
Jung, Carl, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Kabir, [>]
Kadmon, Adam, [>], [>]
Kafka, Franz, [>], [>]
Kandinsky, Wassily, [>], [>]
Kant, Immanuel, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Kennedy, Bobby, [>]
King, Martin Luther, [>]
Klee, Paul, [>]
Koestler, Arthur, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Korman, Henry, [>]–[>]
Kozyrev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Kurtz, Katherine, [>]
KW, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Leary, Timothy, [>]
Le Guin, Ursula, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Leibnitz, Gottfried, [>], [>], [>]
Lem, Stanislaw, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Lemnitz, Tisne, [>]
Lévy-Brühl, Lucien, [>]
Lewis, Jerry, [>]
Lovecraft, H. P., [>]
Luther, Martin, [>], [>]
Mahler, Gustav, [>]–[>]
Maimonides, [>]
Malebranch, Nicolas, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Malzberg, Barry, [>]
Mann, Peter, [>]
Marcuse, Herbert, [>]
Marx Brothers, [>]
May, Rollo, [>], [>]
Mays, Willie, [>]
McCartney, Paul, [>]
McKenna, Dennis J., [>]–[>]
McKenna, Terrence L., [>]–[>]
McMahon, Ed, [>]
Mead, Margaret, [>]
Meredith, Scott, [>]
Meskys, Ed, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Miller, Henry, [>]
Milton, John, [>]
Minkowski, Herman, [>], [>]
Moore, C. L., [>]
Mumford, Lewis, [>]–[>]
Murphy, Bridey, [>]
Napoleon Bonaparte, [>]
Newton, Isaac, [>]
Newton-John, Olivia, [>]
Nicks, Stevie, [>]
Nietzsche, Friedrich, [>], [>], [>]
Nixon, Richard M., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Ornstein, Robert, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Paracelsus, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Parmenides, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Paul the Apostle, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Perry, John Weir, [>], [>]
Pike, Diane, [>]
Pike, Jim, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Plato, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Platt, Charles, [>]
Plotinus, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Principal, Victoria, [>]
Proust, Marcel, [>]
Purser, Philip, [>]–[>]
Pynchon, Thomas, [>]
Pythagoras, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Reagan, Ronald, [>]
Reich, Wilhelm, [>], [>]
Rickman, Gregg, [>], [>]
Ronstadt, Linda, [>], [>], [>]
Sankara, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Sarill, Bill, [>], [>]
Sauter, Doris, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, [>]
Schiller, Friedrich, [>], [>]
Schopenhauer, Arthur, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Schrödinger, Erwin, [>], [>]
Schubert, Franz, [>], [>]
Shakespeare, William, [>]
Silkwood, Karen, [>]
Silverberg, Bob, [>]
Simon the Magus, [>]–[>]
Sladek, John Thomas, [>]
Slick, Grace, [>]
Smith, Cordwainer, [>]
Socrates, [>], [>]
Spinoza, Baruch, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Spinrad, Norman, [>]
Squires,
Roy, [>]
Sturgeon, Theodore (“Ted”), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Tagore, Rabindranath, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Tart, Charles T., [>]
Taverner, John, [>]
Taylor, Angus, [>], [>]
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Tesla, Nikola, [>], [>]
Theresa of Avila, [>]
Thomas Aquinas, [>]
Thompson, Claire, [>]
Tillich, Paul, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Vance, Jack, [>]
van Vogt, A. E., [>], [>]
Virgil, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Wagner, Richard, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Warrick, Patricia S., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Watson, James D., [>], [>]–[>]
Watts, Alan, [>], [>]
Weill, Kurt, [>]
Weinbaum, Stanley, [>]
Westaway, Jim, [>]
Whitehead, Alfred North, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Wiggins, Charles, [>]
Williams, Paul, [>]–[>], [>]
Wilson, Bob, [>], [>]
Wilson, Robert Anton, [>], [>]
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, [>]
Wordsworth, William, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Wunderlich, Fritz, [>]
Xenophanes, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Yeats, William Butler, [>], [>]
Zimmer, Heinrich, [>]
Works Index
“Adjustment Team,” [>], [>], [>]
“Beyond Lies the Wub,” [>]–[>], [>], [>]
“Beyond the Door,” [>]
Bishop Timothy Archer. See The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“Breakfast at Twilight,” [>]
BTA. See The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“Chains of Air, Web of Aether,” [>], [>], [>]
Clans of the Alphane Moon, [>], [>], [>]
“The Commuter,” [>], [>], [>]
Confessions of a Crap Artist, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
The Cosmic Puppets, [>]
Counter-Clock World, [>], [>]
“The Defenders,” [>]
Deus Irae, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
DI. See The Divine Invasion
The Divine Invasion (VALIS Regained), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb, [>], [>]
“The Electric Ant,” [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Enough to Scare the Dead (working book title), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
“The Exit Door Leads In,” [>]
Eye in the Sky, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
“The Eyes Have It,” [>]
“Faith of Our Fathers,” [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
“Foster, You’re Dead!,” [>]
“Frozen Journey,” [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Galactic Pot-Healer, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
The Game-Players of Titan, [>], [>]
“The Golden Man,” [>], [>]
“I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon.” See “Frozen Journey”
“Impostor,” [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
The Man in the High Castle, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
The Man Who Japed, [>]
“Martians Come in Clouds,” [>]
Martian Time-Slip, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Mary and the Giant, [>], [>]
A Maze of Death, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
“Not by Its Cover,” [>]
Now Wait for Last Year, [>]
“Of Withered Apples,” [>]
Our Friends from Frolix [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
The Owl in Daylight, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
The Penultimate Truth, [>], [>], [>], [>]
“Precious Artifact,” [>], [>], [>]
“Retreat Syndrome,” [>], [>], [>], [>]
A Scanner Darkly, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
“Second Variety,” [>]
The Simulacra, [>]
Solar Lottery, [>], [>], [>]
THITHC. See The Man in the High Castle
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Time Out of Joint, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Ubik, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
The Unteleported Man, [>]
VALIS, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
VALIS Regained (VR). See The Divine Invasion
Valisystem A (working book title), [>]–[>]
“We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” [>]
More by Philip K. Dick:
Lies, Inc.
Now Wait for Last Year
A Scanner Darkly
The Simulacra
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
VALIS
The Divine Invasion
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Exception from “A Scanner Darkly”
Please enjoy this sample chapter of
A Scanner Darkly.
1
ONCE A GUY stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there were no bugs in his hair. After he had taken a shower for eight hours, standing under hot water hour after hour suffering the pain of the bugs, he got out and dried himself, and he still had bugs in his hair; in fact, he had bugs all over him. A month later he had bugs in his lungs.
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bsp; Having nothing else to do or think about, he began to work out theoretically the life cycle of the bugs, and, with the aid of the Britannica, try to determine specifically which bugs they were. They now filled his house. He read about many different kinds and finally noticed bugs outdoors, so he concluded they were aphids. After that decision came to his mind it never changed, no matter what other people told him . . . like “Aphids don’t bite people.”
They said that to him because the endless biting of the bugs kept him in torment. At the 7-11 grocery store, part of a chain spread out over most of California, he bought spray cans of Raid and Black Flag and Yard Guard. First he sprayed the house, then himself. The Yard Guard seemed to work the best.
As to the theoretical side, he perceived three stages in the cycle of the bugs. First, they were carried to him to contaminate him by what he called Carrier-people, which were people who didn’t understand their role in distributing the bugs. During that stage the bugs had no jaws or mandibles (he learned that word during his weeks of scholarly research, an unusually bookish occupation for a guy who worked at the Handy Brake and Tire place relining people’s brake drums). The Carrier-people therefore felt nothing. He used to sit in the far corner of his living room watching different Carrier-people enter—most of them people he’d known for a while, but some new to him—covered with the aphids in this particular nonbiting stage. He’d sort of smile to himself, because he knew that the person was being used by the bugs and wasn’t hip to it.
“What are you grinning about, Jerry?” they’d say.
He’d just smile.
In the next stage the bugs grew wings or something, but they really weren’t precisely wings; anyhow, they were appendages of a functional sort permitting them to swarm, which was how they migrated and spread—especially to him. At that point the air was full of them; it made his living room, his whole house, cloudy. During this stage he tried not to inhale them.
Most of all he felt sorry for his dog, because he could see the bugs landing on and settling all over him, and probably getting into the dog’s lungs, as they were in his own. Probably—at least so his empathic ability told him—the dog was suffering as much as he was. Should he give the dog away for the dog’s own comfort? No, he decided: the dog was now, inadvertently, infected, and would carry the bugs with him everywhere.
Sometimes he stood in the shower with the dog, trying to wash the dog clean too. He had no more success with him than he did with himself. It hurt to feel the dog suffer; he never stopped trying to help him. In some respect this was the worst part, the suffering of the animal, who could not complain.