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Philip K. Dick Speaks (Sorta)
futileboy writes "Erik Davis put together this posthumous interview of Philip K. Dick from some tapes he found (he explains how it came together in his introduction to the interview). It comes off pretty clean."
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Sci Fi writer Philip K. Dick was found dead in his Berkeley home. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
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RTFJ.
Funny, because "pretty clean" isn't really something I'd ever describe PKD as having been.
Abrubtly cut short when he was asked about the marked improvement in his writing style and ability since his death.
eh he he he said dick hrm he he
Interesting application of Ghostscript
At least now because of Mr. Hubbard, when movie critics die, they known for sure what movie is going to be playing on a continious loop in Hell's Metroplex. Poor Gene Siskel...
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Interviews with ghosts.... next thing you know, Slashdot will be reporting that some financially unsound software company will be suing... I dunno, IBM saying that they own Linux or something like that.
"psthumous"?
What's that mean - he's whispering from beyond the grave?
<Rimshot> Sorry.
=TKK
Bill Gates - Creationist?!?
It is not far enough out of context to be funny or slanderous, but not in context enough to be worth the paper is is written on... oh. Never mind.
And why can't I mod down the whole artical, isn't this a heirachical database? :-)
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
as obvious and asinine mistake as violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics the way The Matrix's idiotic "humans as batteries" backstory does
Yeah, cause when I walked out of the theatre after seeing it everyone was talking about it's obvious flaw and whether or not the Second Law of Thermodynamics could be circumvented by machines with greater intellect.
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
The alchemy is probably from a purely practical need to synthesise more, and better quality, drugs.
What a long, strange trip it's been.
Don't let him freak you out. Relax and have some Trania.
I've been swashdotted -- Elmer Fudd
The whole "interview" is a crock of shit. I never spoke to that asswipe in my whole death and I never will.
/. posters are dead?
Every bit of that interview came from snippets of quotes (even a couple of misquotes) from when I was living.
The idea that the non-living would/could communicate (especially to that mystic nitwit) via analogue tape hiss is absurd.
Of course, optical fiber is the very best medium for communications between the living and the post-living. Did you know that at least 28% of
Subsequent research proved, however, that all of the quotations have already made an appearance somewhere in Dick's fiction, letters, or essays
Wow! Then this must be for real! How could he possibly know things that have already made a public appearance?!?
Does this guy have a 1-900 number? I must call him at $4.95/minute, so he can amaze me by telling me things that I already know!!!!!
Ever watch "Serial Mom"?
I'm sure Kathleen Turner's character bears absolutely no similarites to any personalities living or dead.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff