William Sarill, the name sounds vaguely familiar, right? Perhaps you've been reading
Maze of Death and remember the little introduction by Dick explaining that the novel is borne out of late night discussions of religion with, you guessed it, William Sarill. Or maybe you've been looking at that picture of PKD and Nancy (the one where it looks like PKD's got a ponytail), that was taken by William Sarill. No doubt Sarill was one of the more interesting grain patterns to step out of the woodwork for the PKD Fest, peppering the crowd with anecdotes and insights about Phil Dick and his work. Now Bill has written up his thoughts for the Boston Phoenix. Read it
here. And check out that awesome illustration (I pasted it above). It's quite a nice article about PKD, written by flesh and blood.
Sarill writes:
"It's that spiritual yearning for answers that
drew me to him in the first place — that and an appreciation for his
wonderfully weird ideas and the occasional brilliance of his
characterizations, so unlike those of other science-fiction writers of
his era."Amen, brother.
If you're not in our Facebook group, you've missed a bit of hullabaloo introduced by Bill, regarding Dick's time rooming with Duncan and Spicer. I don't think we've talked about
this. Interesting, eh?
Perhaps we can liven up the comments section with a little old fashioned debate.
