tenuous links

[fnicki dzolta]

right

yer know lazy reviewers who fall back
on that good old method of comparin
an author to another via a third?

well, philip k dick is a poor man's pynchon
according to one of the afformentioned vermin
except he isn't

of course you cry

but phil is in a different league:
whereas pynchon's style is a bit confusin
but his plots are kinda straight forward,
phil's style is kinda straight forward
but his plots are all over the place,
and envigoratin to say t' least

what im tryin to say is
READ PHILIP K DICK
AND DO IT NOW
for example:

valis
a scanner darkly
ubik
the three stigmata of palmer eldritch

so from one tenuous link to another:

dick writes sf
pynchon likes to read sf

for all those who do not know dick's work
become familiar
for all those who do know dick's work
buy more
read em again

there
im done

i guess this is as relevant
as that other message about turkeys

bye

p.s  what the fuck was that german geezer/geezette talkin abaht?
       summat german no doubt...


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