Typed letter signed to Claudia Bush.
DICK, Philip K.
Verlag: [California:] 24 July 1974
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A typed letter signed from Dick to MA student Claudia Krenz Bush, with two manuscript emendations. Dick includes a brief description of his domestic life as seen through the eyes of a reporter for the Daily Telegraph and expresses his disappointment with the otherworldly being who keeps appearing in his dreams. Dick promises to send a copy of the Daily Telegraph interview to Bush, "then you can see what a nitwit I appear to be to foreigners". His attempt to be a gracious host by offering the reporter "some eggs" was unsuccessful and portrayed as a comical episode in the interview, much to Dick's chagrin. He moves on to talk about an ongoing topic, that of his visions and dreams. In his earlier correspondence with Bush, he expressed excitement about a being who kept visiting his dreams. Dick has finally identified the mysterious figure to be the ancient Greek and "founder of Western medicine" Asklepios. Dick is very disappointed that the being is not an alien. "I woke up with an acute feeling of resentment and the scales falling from my eyes and my illusions shot to hell. he was just a human being". Earlier letters expressed a hope that Asklepios was healing him psychically through the dreams and imparting great wisdom, but here "I felt like a kid who discovers to his shocked dismay that his parents are no different from anyone else". This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1991). Single leaf (280 x 216 mm), typed one side only. Fine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 175027
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Titel: Typed letter signed to Claudia Bush.
Verlag: [California:] 24 July 1974
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Typed letter signed to Claudia Bush.
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[California:] 12 February 1975, 1975
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A typed letter signed from Dick to MA student Claudia Krenz Bush, with three minor manuscript corrections by Dick. In this letter, Dick is anxious and frustrated by his ongoing custody battle with his ex-wife Nancy, who has disappeared with their daughter, Isa. It is a very intimate letter, touching only briefly on what Dick calls his "metaphysic" and the nature of reality. Dick promises to "do what I can to inform you as to the True & Authentic Nature of the Universe, but at this time all I feel is the cold and darkening clouds, the gradual numbing inside me". Nancy was mentally unstable and could be volatile, so her disappearance with Isa scared Dick, though it strengthened his custody case: "There is little in the world to induce immediate fear and then a continual descent into dread than to have your attorney say excitedly in your ear, 'She's disappeared! She's gone!'" There is a break in the letter, and Dick returns later the same day to report that Isa has been found safe with Nancy's sister Ann, whom Dick admits is better suited to raise his daughter than either Nancy or himself. Slightly buoyed, Dick is able to turn to his and Claudia's most frequent topic of correspondence: his VALIS visions and the nature of reality. "'What is reality?' is falsely asked, and should go: 'What are reality?' I believe it consists of two mirror opposites." This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1991). Two leaves (280 x 216 mm), typed one side only. Mildly toned with faint stains to edges; near-fine. Artikel-Nr. 175030
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Typed letter signed to Claudia Bush.
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16 February 1975, 1975
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A typed letter signed from Dick, with nine manuscript corrections, to MA student Claudia Krenz Bush, who was writing her thesis on Dick, published as "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick". In this letter, Dick is full of praise for Claudia's writing ("your letter to me is so well written that I think I will apply for a grant to write a thesis on your letters"), warns her repeatedly against unscrupulous academics ("they will rip you off baby, I mean it. They will fucking steal your insights and call them their own"), and skirts around flirtation: "When you don't have anything marketable yet, they're not interested; but you have, Claudia (I refer, ahem, to your writing)". He extols her writing and encourages her to continue: "Claudia, you should do a novel in the first person, like Henry Miller or Celine; it'd cause Western Civilization to cash in on the spot, and we'd all get off on that, by golly. If I tell you that in a number of ways I genuinely do regard you as a superb writer, you must believe me, and I would know, because I can tell good prose, funny and acute prose, original prose, right-on prose, and, best of all, the authentic prose of our people. We do have a prose, we Americans. Heller has it, Saul Bellow has it - you do too, Claudia. you'll see that I came close to having it, close enough to know it when someone else has it". He mentions draft notes for a "very personal" novel which "will show how really wild, how REALLY WILD my inner life is" and ends the letter with a complicated cryptographic decoding of the word "Albemuth", revealed to him in a dream, and later used in the title to his novel Radio Free Albemuth (1985). This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1993). Three leaves (280 x 216 mm), typed one side only. Stains to edges, else well-preserved. Artikel-Nr. 175037
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Typed letter signed to Claudia Bush.
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[California:] 15 February 1975, 1975
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A typed letter signed from Dick to MA student Claudia Krenz Bush, with nine corrections in his hand. This is a dense letter in which Dick tackles theories of reality and time, referring to Plato, Parmenides, Aristotle, Robert E. Ornstein, Emanuel Kant, Nikolai Kozyrev, and Christ. Dick dives straight in with a discussion whether time is linear or cyclic. Cyclic time would mean that "when the new crop of corn or wheat appears, it is not a new crop, it is the same crop. we know that the ancient and primitive cultures believed this". The modern world has substituted this for linear time, which Dick thinks is a mistake. "We are like children watching a merry-go-round and imagining that every single horse is a totally new horse, rather than the same ones repeating themselves. If one takes a merry-go-round as paradigm for the universe, then what is our mental age as we see only lineal time? And not the eternal repetitions?". He allows that our lifespans are too short for us to see the cyclic nature of the merry-go-round: we are "jerked away" before we can see the repetitions. But this, he notes, is "precisely how the miracle of transubstantiation takes place: it joins us by piercing through our lineal time to the unchanging moment of the Last Supper". Using psychologist Robert E. Ornstein's research on the different hemispheres of the brain as a touchstone, Dick locates our "time-space sense" or capacity to "pierce to the heart of things" in the right hemisphere of the brain, as "the left alone certainly knows only lineal time". He points to Kant's metaphysics as a symptom of how "we have gone too far into 'inner space' as the realm where everything takes place" and argues strenuously that we have developed two brain hemispheres, each of which is a separate mind, in order to perceive both lineal and cyclic time. We have, Dick argues, evolved to see only lineal time because it is more useful for our quotidian experience of reality. However, he sees no reason to abandon one in favour of the other. "Why not hold both? Have your cake and eat it too? Where does it say you can't? Is the universe limited to just so many fundamental constituents and that's it?". This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1993). Three leaves (280 x 216 mm), typed one side only. Faint stains to edges, else well-preserved. Artikel-Nr. 175031
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Typed letter signed, to Claudia Bush.
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[California:] 19 July 1974, 1974
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A typed letter signed from Dick to Claudia Bush, a university student who was writing a thesis on Dick's novels, with eight brief authorial manuscript corrections. Dick delves into the particulars of his VALIS visions and draws parallels between his own experiences and that of his friend James Pike, a controversial Episcopal bishop and the inspiration for Bishop Archer in Dick's The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982). Pike was the fifth bishop of California. He was an early proponent of the ordination of woman and racial desegregation within mainline churches. After the suicide of his son in 1966, Pike became a believer in spiritualism and psychic phenomena. In this letter, Dick remarks with pride that a bookseller compared his experiences to those of Pike and posits that he and Pike share a psychic connection: "all these ideas, all this classical information, was some how connected with Jim, somehow came from him". This letter is written in the aftermath of Dick's VALIS visions of 1974, which happened shortly after a wisdom tooth operation. Dick received a home delivery of opioids from a woman wearing a Christian Ichthys necklace. The symbol emitted a pink beam of light which was the catalyst for months of visionary experiences, including Dick's belief that his mind had been invaded by a benign but separate consciousness. The period of PKD's visions began in February or March of 1974, and continued for anywhere between two and 12 months. Claudia Bush was a student at Idaho State University who was working on her thesis, "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick". She and Dick maintained an extensive and rich correspondence. This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1991). Three leaves (280 x 216 mm) typed on side only. Fine. Artikel-Nr. 175015
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Typed letter signed to Claudia Bush.
Verlag:
[California:] 24 July 1974, 1974
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A typed letter signed from Dick to MA student Claudia Krenz Bush, with six manuscript corrections and a handwritten postscript by Dick. Dick recounts three separate dreams and unravels their meanings. The first dream involves a ball of yarn and a trident - briefly appearing under the guise of a pile of spaghetti and a fork - which Dick must untangle. He interprets the dream through the lens of Greek mythology, suggesting that the thread may belong to Arachne or Ariadne. His second dream is of intimidating "doubledomed golden skinned men" with cyclops eyes. These men had appeared to Dick before, and he had hoped they may be aliens. Here, he realizes that they are human. "So acute terror gave way to keen disappointment. [handwritten:] (the story of my life)". Dick concludes they are Ancient Greeks who are "curing & guiding & improving" him and, despite his disappointment, feels confident that they have his best interests at heart. He concludes with a deep analysis of a couplet which appeared in the first dream, "you have to put your slippers on / to walk toward the Dawn". He takes it to be a message of encouragement, instructing him to abandon fear. He closes with a moving description of a final dream, a "very short odd dream; a woman, so close to me that she blended into me momentarily, was weeping unconscionably". This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1991). Three leaves (280 x 216 mm), typed one side only. Fine. Artikel-Nr. 175017
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