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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
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Meet humans. Meet specials. Meet animals. Meet androids.
Gage their empathy and retire them. Practice Mercerism.
Dial your moods. Love your animals.
Have fun in this wonderful world!

Plot holes that I disliked:
- Why employ a 2nd pair of andy killers instead of making some andys pose as such?
- 2 police precincts?
- 2 sets of andy tests. Osencibly both effective? Why not make a bogus one and be done with it?
- The animals thing - underdeveloped.

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What do you do, roam around killing people and telling yourself they're androids? (c)
Q:
"Phil Resch, Rick Deckard. You're both bounty hunters and it's probably time you met. ©
Q:
"The androids� are lonely, too." (c)
Q:
If you set the surge up high enough, you'll be glad you're awake; that's the whole point (c)
Q:
"My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression," �
I sat down at my mood organ and I experimented. And I finally found a setting for despair. �
"So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything, (c)
Q:
At his console he hesitated between dialing for a thalamic suppressant (which would abolish his mood of rage) or a thalamic stimulant (which would make him irked enough to win the argument) (c)
Q:
Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating. (c)
Q:
A 481. Awareness of the manifold possibilities open to me in the future; new hope � (c)
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"I can't dial a setting that stimulates my cerebral cortex into wanting to dial! If I don't want to dial, I don't want to dial that most of all, because then I will want to dial, and wanting to dial is right now the most alien drive I can imagine; I just want to sit here on the bed and stare at the floor." (c)
Q:
"My horse � is pregnant." �
"What do you say to that?" ...
"I say pretty soon you'll have two horses," (c)
Q:
Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one. (c)
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"But," Rick interrupted, "for you to have two horses and me none, that violates the whole basic theological and moral structure of Mercerism. (c)
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“Can you believe we really pulled this off?� ...
“Not really. I’m waiting for the next helicopter to land.� (с)
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If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me,
time after time. (c)
Q:
Your long jet-black hair is one of your best features, but the high ponytails and dramatic updos you currently favor convey a look of aggression. When you enter a room, the ladies immediately think, “This woman is either going to steal my husband, my baby, or my yoga mat.� (c)
Q:
I will provide you with an essential oil made from ylang-ylang, sage, and other secret ingredients that will make you smell like you have been baking apple tarts all morning. (c) Ok, this is unbelievable. Ylang-ylang is one of the most striking aromas that are totally unlike apples. Hmmm�
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"An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to any other android. That's one of the indications we look for."
"Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android. (c)
Q:
The thing about rabbits, sit, is that everybody has one. I'd like to see you step up to the goat-class where I feel you belong. Frankly you look more like a goat man to me. (c)
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“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
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“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”
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“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick
“You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore”
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick
“Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.”
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?


Reading Progress

January 12, 2019 – Shelved
January 13, 2019 – Started Reading
January 13, 2019 – Finished Reading

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