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Early in 1974 Dick felt a "pink beam" flashing through his head, a religious experience--or mild stroke--which inspired him to write his vast theological "Exegesis". In Valis the pink beam illuminates Dick's mentally unstable friend Horselover Fat; Philip is Greek for lover of horses and Dick is German for fat.
Dick's alter ego Fat duly creates the weird Gnostic theology of the Exegesis, with its visions of salvation from the insane side of reality--the Empire, whose Black Iron Prison cages us all. "The Empire never ended." Also there's a three-eyed race among us and all time between AD 103 and 1974 may be a divine illusion...
The resulting debates between Fat and friends, including Dick, are often hilariously insane. It's clear that Fat is deluded--until they all see the SF movie Valis, whose rock star actor-director suggests David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth and which uncannily features Exegesis code phrases, timeslips, third eyes, early Christian symbols and pink beams.
Maybe the film's Vast Active Living Intelligence System, a satellite which controls minds via lasers, is the same as the messiah imagined by Fat? Naturally he and friends contact the director, leading to an unexpected interview with VALIS itself.
Dick was the supreme SF master of booby-trapped reality and Valis celebrates his own escape from the trap that claimed him in 1974. Chilling, moving and acknowledged by the SF Encyclopedia as the finest novel of Dick's last years. --David Langford
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The proponent of the novel, Horselover Fat, is thrust into a theological quest when he receives communion in a burst of pink laser light. From the cancer ward of a bay area hospital to the ranch of a fraudulent charismatic religious figure who turns out to have a direct com link with God, Dick leads us down the twisted paths of Gnostic belief, mixed with his own bizarre and compelling philosophy. Truly an eye opening look at the nature of consciousness and divinity. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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This is the story of a man wounded by tragedy and guilt, in search of redemtion amidst a background of what I can only call metaphysical conspiracy. It is inspired by the author's own mystical experience, as is a tractate included as an appendix to 'Valis'.
'Valis' see-saws between engaging Gnostic themes and some arguably off-putting high wierdness. Dick peppers his work with quotes and ideas (or his twist on them) from a great variety of esoteric sources, and some might find the book a worthwhile read for these tidbits alone. But be advised, when 'Valis' is strange, it is very strange. Trans-temporal three-eyed crab creature from Sirius strange. And it does not (perhaps, by it's nature, cannot) resolve itself into the neat package some readers might hope for.
In the end, I was left wondering whether Dick with his keen writer's mind hadn't overanalyzed and over-literalized the catalyst experience which inspired this book. Perhaps that is a presumptious suggestion on my part, but 'Valis' left me with the image of a man being given a magic stone by which he can travel to the moon and back, and deciding to build a rocket ship around it anyway. To me there seemed alot of extraneous, "bolted on" stuff. But I suppose it's possible that I'm missing some point or other. Given the very personal nature of Dick's writing here, not many could hope to grasp his every point.
Even so, I did find something genuinely moving here. At the book's heart is a greatly embellished retelling of Plato's parable of the cave. And both the Gnostic and human drama elements stand up fairly well even with all the wierd stuff bearing down on them from above (though a loud creaking can be heard in places).
The bottom line is that I admired this book, even though I'm not sure that I really liked it. If you are in the mood for something different, this is not a bad bet.
I can only recommend this book to those who are intersted in spirtial questions and do have a broader philosophical and theological background.
Apart from that this is the most schizophrenic book i have ever read mostly because it seems to somehow describe Dicks real life and believe me it is weird ! But if you are intersted in the basic theme this is well worth reading and highly enjoyable.
Horselover Fat and Philip K. Dick (about the only way to understand that is to read the book!) are confronted by their friend Kevin who brings them to see a movie titled "Valis". "Valis" was written in 6 days by music superstar Mother Goose, or his real name Eric Lampton. The movie follows a musical singer, played by Goose, and his manager/record company owner Nicholas Brady, who releases music with subliminal messages to help overthrow the president, Ferris F. Fremont.
Fat, Dick and Kevin see the film several times and form the Rhipsodon Society with David, another friend, and take it upon themselves to meet Goose. Dick goes through his photographer friend who worked on the movie, and eventually gets to meet Goose and his wife.
The book continues on, and is great. It is an excellent example of Philip K. Dick's insane side, and it can be rather disturbing, yet interesting. This is one of the best books I've ever read, and if you get it, I'm sure it will be the same with you.
In closing, I just wanted to add:
King _____?
Es ist auch das einzig Lesenswerte an der sogenannten Valis-Triologie, die beiden... Lesen Sie weiter...
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