Philip K. Dick: Difference between revisions

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He wasn't particularly popular in the United States during most of his lifetime, but he [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|gained a following in France]] among the intellectual set; his bizarre works meshed nicely with the [[Post Modernism|postmodern philosophy]] then current in French academia.

Around 1974, Dick began to have odd [http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm revelations/hallucinations], [~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Theophany culminating with direct contact] with the [[God|entity formerly known as God]]. Many think he suffered from schizophrenia, a possibility Dick himself acknowledged and wrestled with. He became increasingly paranoid, at one point alleging that the KGB or the FBI stole documents from his house (he did, in fact, come home one night to find one of his filing cabinets forced open); later, he suggested that he ''might have broken into his own house'' and then forgotten about it. Many suspect his later novels are so [[Mind Screw|confusing]] because he was trying to [[Creator Breakdown|work out these problems in his writing]].

Around 1974, Dick began to have odd [http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm revelations/hallucinations], [[wikipedia:Theophany|culminating with direct contact]] with the [[God|entity formerly known as God]]. Many think he suffered from schizophrenia, a possibility Dick himself acknowledged and wrestled with. He became increasingly paranoid, at one point alleging that the KGB or the FBI stole documents from his house (he did, in fact, come home one night to find one of his filing cabinets forced open); later, he suggested that he ''might have broken into his own house'' and then forgotten about it. Many suspect his later novels are so [[Mind Screw|confusing]] because he was trying to [[Creator Breakdown|work out these problems in his writing]].

He has a strong cult-following pan-globally which has been growing since his death in the early 1980s, encouraged by the relevance that a lot of his works have to modern day society. A lot of his more thought-provoking works continue to be the subject of analysis today, although exactly ''what'' that analysis can mean [[Your Mileage May Vary|varies from person to person]].

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