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"Overall there are remarkably few typically bibliophilic indulgences, like his complaint that a catalog of arms, issued by the Bulletin of the Public Museums of Milwaukee in 1928, misspells the name of a pistol manufacturer (vol. 3, p. 39)."

"Fantasy stories have always let us vicariously participate with characters in confronting impossible crises, but seldom the sort of existential trap doors that Dick’s characters face. You’d have to go to the plays of Ionesco or Pinter or Becket to find anything similar, but Dick’s characters are far more real than theirs, and his characters’ situations are far more convincing." —Tim Powers via

"Robert Frost, like Jimi Hendrix, had to go to England to get famous in America."

"The Yellow Flicker Runway"

Sumatra in my ammo box, not yet done
with the old cheap coffee. Mild crepuscular war
on the airwaves taut with rages that concur
& i feel seen by tremulous shards of dawn.
Battlefields where hist'ry dropped the ball
& wounds expired without a chance to play.
I story them with tutelary awe
knowing that ev'ry one of us must fail.
This civilization bites the dust once more.
Disease in management is hard to cure.
Books accumulate like shadowy leaves
the World Tree sheds, hour by hour removes.
It is a riddle for Pellucidar
one raids with brisk, imaginary knives.

"I'm really supposed to be writing my novel, but instead I decided to write a passage capturing the Australian essence."