7. After being administered sodium pentothal for a wisdom tooth extraction, Dick started seeing a pink light which offered him advice.
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8. Dick called the pink light Valis (Vast Active Living Intelligence System). Valis became kind of life coach & helped Dick clean up his act
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9. Valis was mostly a good friend: told Dick to take son to doctor (which was needed) & write letters to get back royalties from publishers
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10. Although heavy drug use had done much damage to his mind, Philip K. Dick did not become a neo-conservative.
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11. In one way Valis did move Dick to the right: under its influence he wrote letters to FBI denouncing Marxist literary critics.
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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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13. Although Podhoretz doesn't talk much about his Diagram in the Sky, it clearly provided him with the crazed certitude of his later life.
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14. Dick questioned his own vision & used it creatively to great effect in his late fiction -- the Valis trilogy.
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15. All of which is to say many different people can hear divine messages and they can use them in very different ways.
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What's your favorite PKD book, Jeet? Every Dick reader gives a different answer. (I'm partial to Time Out of Joint)
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Dr. Bloodmoney or maybe Martian Time-Slip.
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Dr. Bloodmoney is a great answer. Perhaps his weirdest work, which is saying something.
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