The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Their trouble, she decided, is with sex; they did something foul with it back in the ‘thirties, and it has gotten worse.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Random, and yet rooted in the moment in which he lived, in which his life was bound up with all other lives and particles in the universe.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
What they say is true: your powers of imitation are immense. Apple pie, Coca-Cola, stroll after the movie, Glenn Miller … you could paste together out of tin and rice paper a complete artificial
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and our time creations of our own psyche, and when these momentarily falter – like acute disturbance of middle ear.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
don’t know why I didn’t recognize the racial characteristics when I saw him. Evidently I’m easily deceived.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Which are you? he asked the silver squiggle. Dark dead yin or brilliant living yang?
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
What about the South? His body recoiled. Ugh. Not that. As a white man he would have plenty of place, in fact more than he had here in the P.S.A. But … he did not want that kind of place.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Back at last to seeing. Highest ranking of the senses: Greek scale of priority. He turned the silver triangle each and every way; he viewed it from every extra rem standpoint.