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building of, 68-69
changing, 63-64
female, 45-47, 51-52, 54-63, 66-67, 75
as idealized self, 62
loss of, 60
love-hate relationship with, 61
mental pictures of, 72
writer’s familiarity with, 96
Chariots of Fire (film), 22
Childhood’s End (Clark), 182
Chirico, Giorgio de, 184
Clark, Arthur C., 182
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film), 22, 24-25
color:
frequencies of, 93-95
language of, 89, 93, 100, 102, 126, 185
in religious experience, 184-85
as vibration, 72-74
cost-benefit ratio, 134-35
ciphers, 80-82
Dante Alighieri, 88, 117, 127-28
death, as going into the light, 92, 102, 127-28
Death in Venice (film), 33
deductive reasoning, 74-75
Democritus, 78
Descartes, 80, 96-97, 109
Desprez, Josquin, 116
detectives of the forties, 43-44
determinism and chance, 63
Dick, Christopher, 148-49
Dick, Philip Kindred:
aging of, 172-73
analyst of, 46-47
death of, 7
internal bleeding of, 60, 135, 136-37
memory of, 105
religion and, see religion research activity of, 105-6, 134-35
and younger generation, 144-47
diminishing returns, law of, 134-35
direct reciprocal transfer, 129
Divine Comedy (Dante), 88, 117, 127-28
Divine Invasion, The (Dick), 11, 190, 194-96
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick), 10, 12, 17-20
Blade Runner and, 20, 32-36, 53
comic book of, 39, 166
editions of, 20
out of print, 38
rerelease of, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41-42, 167
Doors, The, 159
Durant, Will, 152
Eddy and the Hot Rods, 116
epistemology, 109, 119
Everly Brothers, 110
Exegesis (Dick), 11
eye, phosphine activity in, 90-91
failure, fear of, 136
Faust story:
in Owl, 120, 124, 128-30, 133-34
universality of, 67
female characters, 45-47, 51-52, 54-63, 66-67, 75
Fibonacci numbers, 149, 186
films vs. books, 33
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 67
Flowers for Algernon (film), 122, 123
Fonda, Jane, 21
Ford, Harrison, in Blade Runner, 21-22, 28, 30, 39-42, 43, 44-44, 171
forties, detectives of the era, 43-44
Fronholfer Line, 93
gas, perturbations in, 92, 95
Gilbert and Sullivan, 99
God, existence of, 80
Golden Section, 149, 188
Greek language, Bible and, 155-56
Haggia Sophia, 151-52
Hauer, Rutger, 26
Hungarian Quartet, 163-64
“Impostor” (Dick), 37
information decade, 30
information theory, 83, 106
iron, age of, 150
Jagger, Mick, 159-60
Jesus Christ, 152-53, 191
“Johnny Are You Queer?,” 40
Joyce, James, 67
Justinian, Emperor, 152-53
Kant, Immanuel, 109
KJOY, 116, 117
Klee, Paul, 184
KROQ, 40
Kubrick, Stanley, 29
Layport, Lee, 180
lazers, 73
Leary, Timothy, 145
Lee, Gwen, 5, 8, 10-12, 142
Lennon, John, 137-38
Leucippus, 78
light:
going into, 92, 102, 127-28
religion and, 88-89, 102-3
logic, study of, 119
LSD experience, 110-11
Luke, Saint, 153-54, 155
Mahler, Gustav, 164
Mancini, Henry, 113
Marlowe, Philip, 43-44
mathematics:
communication via, 187-88
music and, 69-72, 73-74, 118-19, 125, 185
universality of, 95, 119
Mathis, Johnny, 110
Meatloaf, 160-61
Meed, Sid, 23, 29, 41
music:
abstraction of, 98-100
as conceptual, 98, 103, 104
emotion and, 100
LSD and, 110-11
mathematics and, 69-72, 73-74, 118-19, 125, 185
as mystical vision, 100-102
oriental, 103-4
Owl in Daylight and, 97-104
religion and, 102-3
score of, 97, 100
transduction of, 97-98, 100
as vibration, 72-74
“Music by a Long Thin Wire” (recording), 70-71
Nightwing (film), 41
No drama, 104
novels:
analyst having read, 46-47
development of, 111, 121
female characters in, 45-47, 51-52, 54-63, 66-67, 75
first sentence written for, 65
literary, 139-40
plots based on experience, 147-55
see also specific titles
optic neurons, 90-91
oscilloscopes, 95, 112
Owl in Daylight, The (Dick), 3, 11, 12, 74-83, 87-140
basic concept of, 74
biochips in, 103, 104, 106-9
development of, 111-25, 186-87
Faustian theme in, 120, 124, 128-30, 133-34
meaning of title, 74, 133
musical experience in, 97-104
supernatural experiences in, 89-92
oxymorons, 77-79
pain and beauty, 126, 127-28
pain medication, effects of, 149-50
Palestrina, 116
parasitism vs. symbiosis, 125
Parmenides, 75-78
Paul, Saint, 149, 153-54
“Paycheck, The” (Dick), 12
Peoples, David W., 32
philanthropia, use of term, 179-80
philosophy, father of, 76
phosphines, 90-91
Plato, 75, 76
plots, based on actual experience, 147-55
precognition, 52, 59
Prometheus, 129
Pythagoras, 69, 95, 185, 187
quantum mechanics, 78
Raiders of the Lost Ark (film), 30, 43, 44
religion:
Bible and, 154-56, 177-79
experiences of, 147-55, 181-86
light and, 88-89, 102-3
music and, 102-3
rebirth and, 153
signs and symbols of, 149-51, 184
Remy-Martin cognac, 162-63
replicants, 26, 63
killing of, in Blade Runner, 33-34, 36
see also androids
Revelation, 187, 190-94
Rosen, Rachel (character), 36, 42, 45, 60-61
saducha, use of term, 179-80
Sagan, Carl, 119
Sauter, Doris Elaine, 3, 5, 7-12
Scanner Darkly, A (Dick), 12
Schmenkna, 119
Schoepenhauer, Arthur, 98-99
science, quantitative basis of, 70
science fiction:
film special effects in, 25-26
imagination and, 140
original ideas in, 37
sales of, 20, 135
supernatural experiences in, 89-92
Scott, Ridley, 23, 31, 32
Shannon, Claude E., 83
Sibelius, Jean, 164
Smith, Bessie, 117
Soldier of Orange (film), 41
Sophia, Saint, 151-52, 180, 181
sóphisma, use of term, 180
sophistication, 180-81
sound:
ears and, 96
lack of, 92, 100-102
raw sense data in, 110-11
species bias toward, 91
as visible, 95
Spade, Sam, 43-44
special effects:
in Blade Runner, 23-24, 29-30, 167-70
in Close Encounters, 24-25
in science fiction, 25-26
Star Trek (film), 22
statements, self-authenticating, 79-80
symbiosis vs. parasitism, 125
Thales, 76
totality, use of word, 79
Total Recall (film), 12
Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The (Dick), 4-6, 11, 53-60, 61-64, 135, 136-39, 170
Angel character in, 54-60, 61, 62, 96
chance and determinism in, 63
religious theme in, 53, 88
Trumball, Douglas, 22, 23, 29, 167 2001 (film), 22, 29
Valis, 4, 5
Vangelis, 22
virtues, list of, 178
visual spectrum, 93
wave form moving through a gas, 92
Wilson, Mary, 167
writers:
of the Bible, 154-55, 177-78
characters built by, see characters characters lost by, 60
deadlines for, 66, 135
Faust stories by, 67
male and female viewpoints of, 62
productivity of, 64-65
rebirth of, 127-28
research activity of, 134
writer’s block, 64-66, 135-37
“Yoda” figure, 146, 165
Young, Sean, 36, 41-42, 45