> Original, with genial details, inconsistent and chaotic
> most of times, I think is a writer to re-discover.
No, I shouldn't do this. There's a PKD list in another region of the virtual netscape
(not the browser). But I have to object here: Phil was not inconsistent and chaotic
most of the times. First time you read novels as The 3 Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
or Ubik they may cause such a state of bewilderment in the reader that you might
think that (that was also my 1st reading impression). But after years of re-reading
ad scholarly attention I (and others) devoted to those works, I found out he had
some basic themes in his mind, his intellectual Fixsterne , and he always dealt with
them: madness, Christian theology, artificial reality, onthological issues, troubled
relations with women, the dignity of craftsmen, etc. In some writers (like Juneger)
the Fixsterne may be more easily traceable, while Dick's are seen as through a glass,
darkly. But that does not amaze me; he was such an avid reader of St. Paul and the
early Christian writers.
Umberto Rossi
"...io vedea la virtute esser spenta, e i vizi sollevati"
Gerolamo Savonarola
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