Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

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God in Human Form: Emmanuel, the main character in the novel The Divine Invasion, is, in actuality, the Judeo-Christian God—and he lost his memories in a car accident. Repressed Memories: In "Recall Mechanism," the protagonist suffers a fear of falling, which his psychiatrist believes is caused by a repressed memory. Subverted when the "memory" turns out to be a psychic vision of the protagonist's future death, which he can do nothing to avoid. There is no Jason Taverner. There never was and there never will be. The hell with my career; I just want to live. If someone or something wants to eradicate my career, okay; do it. But aren't I going to be allowed to exist at all? Wasn't I even born?" Humans Are Bastards: This is part of The Golden Man's motivation - it knows humanity will always try to kill things like it, so it decides on the path that ensures it - and his progeny - survive. He is known for writing some of the first Grey Goo stories and for writing about Postmodernism before it caught on in the academic world. He wrote serious existential and theological treatises within the context of futuristic science-fiction stories, when science-fiction novels were still in their infancy and considered as childish and peripheral by the majority of the literary world. He was one of the first authors to use fantasy and science-fiction to discuss taboo and socially risqué subjects, contemplating ideas that wouldn't be discussed in mainstream academia for decades. He mixed, deconstructed, and reconstructed philosophical and psychological ideology from everything from Carl Jung and his theories on collective consciousness through to Jean-Paul Sartre and his theories on individualism, constantly searching to define and challenge reality and the human mind. Some of his stories have been cited by big-name philosophers like Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Zizek.

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Direct Line to the Author: Played with in "Waterspider". The protagonists decide to fix a technological problem of their era by time-travelling into the past, the golden age of precognatives, and consulting with the precog whose paper "Night Flight" foresaw their very predicament: Poul Anderson. The reader eventually realizes that the "precog society meeting" is actually a science fiction convention—it turns out that all the major SF authors were precogs without realizing it, and were accurately predicting the future in their writings. Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it—grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. You do understand; I know you do. But you just don’t want to think about it. It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Jason, grief is awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.” The book is referenced in the 2001 film Waking Life and in Richard Kelly's 2006 film Southland Tales, in which an underground revolutionary dressed as a police officer (played by Jon Lovitz) says, "Flow my tears" as he shoots two rivals. Also, two of the main characters are Roland and Ronald Taverner.This is my third PKD book and I enjoyed it. I appreciate how his books are extremely unique and original. This story was like the others: simple, clearly written, and to-the-point. His writing style stays away from over embellishing and over the top verbiage; his stories are always very direct. Coronavirus may have silenced our symphony halls, taking away the essential communal experience of the concert as we know it, but The Times invites you to join us on a different kind of shared journey: a new series on listening. The Human League utilised a character named Jason Taverner as the host of their elusive 1979 demo tape, which has since become known by fans as the Taverner Tape. Taverner introduces each of the songs and mentions that he hosts his own network TV show. The key to reading PKD is understanding his stories are mere snapshots during a fictional timeline. The story really does not have a beginning or an end; the story exists for a segment of time, involving the characters during this focal point, and lastly the writing gives you space to fill in the blanks with your own imagination. Second Variety" with human looking robots. As well as many stories with artificial human-looking robots or aliens, some who have no idea that they are not human - and some who are terrified that they are.

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Jason Taverner woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been the top-rated television star with millions of devoted watchers. The next day he was just an unidentified walking object, whose face nobody recognised, of whom no one had heard, and without the I.D. papers required in that near future.

If a lutenist happened to be on the Mayflower, as has been presumed on a new recording, the journey would have included luminous lute dances — pavanes, galliards and alemandes — by England’s greatest living and gloomiest composer, John Dowland. It was as though he were made to serve his melancholic era — with its political, intellectual, religious and social uncertainty, its questioning of science — and to help drive our sober Pilgrims to a New World. Cheerful Charlie – Computerized game-person who gives advice. Not that far removed from kids continually playing and interacting with computer games on their handheld devices. This is also the most sexual of his works. Bad relationships are a staple of PKD stories but here he is almost Silverbergian in his soft porn depictions. Almost. Robert A. Heinlein and Robert Silverberg, the Bob and Bob of seventies SF licentiousness, have nothing to worry about from normally staid Phil. Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites. It was an anomaly which he had never been able to take apart.” Alys presumably obtains access to some KR-3 through Felix ("she must have ripped it off from the [police] academy's special-activities lab...she always tried anything new").

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The best place to start is the song “Flow My Tears,” which has been much recorded. One of the most recent is by the engaging French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky. Or try tenor Peter Pears, the partner of Dowland-besotted Benjamin Britten, with lutenist Julian Bream. Both are on YouTube. The Turning Wheel" is set on some apocalyptic post-nuclear war Earth, far enough in the future that nobody remembers how Detroit got its name. (Possibly from "some now-forgotten spiritual leader.") Ruth said, "Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up somewhere in the apartment like a lamp. Love is"-she paused, reflecting-"like a father saving his children from a burning house, getting them out and denying himself. When you love you cease to live for yourself; you live for another person.”He was also always Dowland, always in trouble. Said to have been an extraordinary lutenist, Dowland was ever conniving, ever complaining, ever in debt, ever ingratiating himself in court, ever scheming. He got himself involved in international intrigues that included an Italian plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and accusations of treason. As the notes to one recording of his masterpiece, “Lachrimae,” put it, Dowland was “an egocentric ever at odds with a world by which he felt himself rejected.” There are the women — five major ones. Heather Hart hates people, loves Taverner — and what else? Ruth Rae is an emotionally burned-out sexpot; not much room for character work there, just dreariness in expensive gowns. Mary Anne is an artist, a nice girl whose image comes over well enough, but she is so plainly puppeted into position to make a point that it really doesn’t matter when she is smartly phased out, her bit part done. In “Melancholia,” the movie, the planet Melancholia crashes into Earth with the strains of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” blaring out the sensation. The Earth ends in ecstasy. Dowland keeps us alive by remaining quietly alert, in control, as we gracefully wipe our eyes.

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Ruth said, "Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up somewhere in the apartment like a lamp. Love is"-she paused, reflecting-"like a father saving his children from a burning house, getting them out and dying himself. When you love you cease to live for yourself; you live for another person.”Dar gândește-te la ce-ai pierdut din viața ta. N-ai iubit niciodată un copil? Îți atinge inima, partea cea mai profundă a ta, cea care te poate ucide cu ușurință. I do think most reviewers , including this one, completely miss the symbolic, as well as the spiritual, esoteric and gnostic aspects of his work. For instance, the symbology around Taverner and the fable of Androcles, or the shattering of the vase and its clear connection to tzimtum in kabala, and so many other things like this. Pkd clearly knew quite a bit about classicism, christianity, and the apocrypha, so this is not surprising, just weird I dont see mention of it in any criticism. What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Plenty of his writings involve Artificial Humans or Ridiculously Human Robots and raise questions about whether their lives are just as valuable as "real" humans.