If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others

Philip K. Dick

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If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others

Philip K. Dick — 1 recording in the archive.

The book: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick.

Type of miles addresses if you part of this world bad we should see some of the other summing to the speed it's a topic which has been discovered recently and which may not exist at all I may be talking about something that does not exist therefore I'm free to say everything or nothing I can hardly make an error if there is no such thing as our thought at the time or thoughtful or right-angle time we are accustomed in supposing that all change takes place along the linear time axis from past present future the president and the crew of the past and a different from the future will approve from the present on and be different yet that in our formula or right angle time axis could exist a lateral domain in which change takes place processes occurring sideways and reality so to speak this is almost impossible to imagine how do we perceive such collateral changes what will the experience what could if we are trying to test out this bizarre theory should we be on the alert for in other words how to change take place outside of linear time in any sense let me present you with the metaphor let us say that there exists is very rich patron of the art every day on the wall his living room above his fireplace his servants hang a new picture each day of different masterpiece day after day month after month each day they use one removed and replaced by a different a new I propose this process change along the linear axis but now let us suppose the service temporarily running out of new replacement picture what shall we do with be done they can't just leave the present one hanging their employer has to create a perpetual replacement that is to say changing the pictures is to take pleasure so they either allow the current one to remain nor do they replace it with the new one instead into the very clever thing when their employer is not looking the servants finally alter the picture already on the wall they paint our tree here they painted a little girl there they add this they obliterate they make the same painting different and in a sense new but as I'm sure you can see not new in the sense of replacing the employer…