tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post2170877718375938236..comments2024-03-28T14:31:08.981-07:00Comments on Total Dick-Head: Happy 82nd Birthday PKD!Ragle Gummhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13951340313214410331noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-25589094340788528712010-12-22T19:57:47.689-08:002010-12-22T19:57:47.689-08:00How hard to believe it's been so many years si...How hard to believe it's been so many years since his death...nearly 30!<br /><br />I still remember riding the midnight bus out of LaGuardia Airport headed to the #7 train into Manhattan, (I worked at a hotel across from the airport at the time, but lived then, as now, in the city) and picking up a section of that day's NY Times that a previous rider had left there, and finding by chance the obituary that Philip K. Dick had died. I don't know which shocked me more...that he had died or that the Times had published his obituary! <br /><br />I was in my 20s then, and now I'm older than Phil was when he died. Time is fleeting for all of us, my friends!<br /><br />(By the way, as it seems to mirror our current geopolitical and military circumstances, I'm presently rereading THE PENULTIMATE TRUTH, a novel that is so perceptive about human systems of power and propaganda as to seem prescient, yet is less achieved than it could have been due to its <i>I'm-writing-as-fast-as-I-can</i> first draft prose. Nonetheless, now seems the most apropos of times to read or reread this book, for those so inclined.)Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-7860224302929588582010-12-18T21:43:57.094-08:002010-12-18T21:43:57.094-08:00This man ruined my taste in science fiction - I ca...This man ruined my taste in science fiction - I can't read any other SciFi authors anymore. And I am so sad, and angry in a way, that Phil died in his 50s, after a life full of hardship and grief. What a man. What a spirit... So unfair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-40862989847565473802010-12-17T11:32:47.030-08:002010-12-17T11:32:47.030-08:00Hi All, I posted this yesterday, on the day, on th...Hi All, I posted this yesterday, on the day, on the <a href="http://www.philipkdickfans.com/node/58" rel="nofollow"> PKD fan site </a> <br /><br />I agree Phil probably could not have made it to 82... health or other reasons.ZenWomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06785982974275423144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-65975771377940715942010-12-17T00:54:53.801-08:002010-12-17T00:54:53.801-08:00Happy Birthday PKD! (2 days after mine, 1 day afte...Happy Birthday PKD! (2 days after mine, 1 day after Clarke)<br />I've always thought his birth and death dates a quirky coincidence- the ultimate anagram, very PKD!<br />May you continue to rest in peace!LarryShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17723096857163954170noreply@blogger.com