2. In 1970 Podhoretz was in a bad way. His 1967 book Making It was a "Mailer-like" bid for fame & fortune but was widely panned & ridiculed
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Well, who can blame him?
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& Dick is the very heart of Marxist SF criticism, which via Jameson in particular is at heart of wider Marxist crit enterprise...
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12. What saved Dick was he didn't quite trust VALIS or take it seriously. As he wrote in a letter, “‘Took drugs, saw God. BFD.’”
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I suspect a lot of this has to do with the nature of the person buried inside who received the impart of divine wisdom.
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...and also one of the best SF writers of all time, Stanislaw Lem, whom he accused of being a Soviet hoax.
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