Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Bring Me the Head of Philip K. Dick
The first robot head of Philip K. Dick vanished mysteriously. Better is this new one, built by Hanson Robotics and Dutch public broadcasters VPRO.
The text at the beginning is from a 1981 interview: "My books are forgeries. Nobody wrote them. I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel and story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception. The core of my writing is not art but truth. Thus what I tell is the truth, yet I can do nothing to alleviate it, either by deed or explanation.
That is followed by this passage from Ubik:
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The first robot head of Philip K. Dick vanished mysteriously. Better is this new one, built by Hanson Robotics and Dutch public broadcasters VPRO.
The text at the beginning is from a 1981 interview: "My books are forgeries. Nobody wrote them. I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel and story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception. The core of my writing is not art but truth. Thus what I tell is the truth, yet I can do nothing to alleviate it, either by deed or explanation.
That is followed by this passage from Ubik:
