Just a quick
note on PKD ’s Exegesis
(I’m up to page 75 – a little over 8 percent done – as I write this): one of
the editors, a teacher of philosophy by trade, calls Dick a “garage philosopher”,
i.e., one whose not concerned so much with rigorous proof and development of
systems, but one who makes great leaps through a powerful imagination and
iconoclastic use of lateral associations.
I immediately liked
that; didn’t have to think myself into it.
I can only hope one day I may be legitimately called a “garage
philosopher.” I think it’d be the
penultimate compliment.
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