1. Has anyone compared how the chemically-induced visions of Philip K. Dick & Norman Podhoretz impacted their works?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I would add Marshall McLuhan's brain tumour to this list.
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Replying to @StephenMarche
I should read up that more -- influenced MM's late work, right?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
He wrote "The Medium is the Massage" before he knew he had it. THen he lost--completely--his knowledge of Renaissance literature.
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Replying to @StephenMarche
McLuhan was really interested in brain literature in 1970s -- theories of bicameral mind. Probably related!
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Probably. All 3 pose same problem: What do you find when you figure out that your brain isn't in your control? Cosmic pride or humility?
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Replying to @StephenMarche
Dick approached his mystical visions as a novelist does -- they were material for him to explore & come up with theories about
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Or just "I guess something happened to me" rather than "I saw God for realsies." IE, I'm a person rather than a prophet.
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Heroic thing about Dick is that there were people around him who wanted to start a cult based on his visions but he refused.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
That seems to me to be defining heroism down somewhat, but hell we're in 2017.
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