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VALIS by Philip K. Dick

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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During February and March 1974, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick experienced a series of strange and exhilarating visions. Almost exactly ten years earlier, Dick had first taken LSD, and his perceptions while tripping on acid prefigured this later mystical mid-life crisis. In a 1965 letter to a friend, he enthused about the "joyous coloration, espe…

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