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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Philip K. Dick has packed his fabulous Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? with all the phobias and anxieties of the sixties: the third world war, the post-apocalyptic bleakness, nature in the state of the ultimate decline, collapse of ecology, degradation of mankind and the desperate fighting to keep one’s identity.
The novel is a cat-and-mouse game but the protagonist stands before the problem of moral choice: which one is a cat and which one is a mouse?
Wherever one is and whatever one does the most important thing is not to lose one’s human qualities.
The novel is a cat-and-mouse game but the protagonist stands before the problem of moral choice: which one is a cat and which one is a mouse?
The old man said, “You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.�
Wherever one is and whatever one does the most important thing is not to lose one’s human qualities.
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Sep 10, 2018 04:48AM
Outstanding quote.
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The quote you included in your review was my favourite one in the book. It's so true :)
The mood organ scene in the beginning is one of the best things I've seen in all his works.
Philip K. Dick's imagination was untamed.
“What do you mean you’ve never seen Blade Runner?� Star Treatment by Arctic Monkeys
Excellent quote. I was moved by this, since it so succinctly put into words the fundamental conundrum of existence, that we are essentially existing ourselves out of existence, whatever the time horizon. The only shared mission between our thinking self and doing self is to get to the end. Before then, fundamentally different objectives.
