Garage Philosopher

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.