NP Total Dick-Head
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Apr 3 00:43:56 CDT 2007
The "Penfield Mood Organ" that appears in Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep? is one of my all-time favorite
Dick gadgets. The device, which stimulates particular
moods in the user (my favorite setting is 888 -- the
desire to watch TV no matter what's on) adds to the
total irony of the book; after all, the novel concerns the
difference between man and machine -- which boils
down to authentic feelings -- but the human protagonist
Rick Deckard uses technology to produce his feelings.
http://totaldickhead.blogspot.com/
Gawd, forgot all about that one, my favorite too, along with that weird, interactive, online and more than vaguely spiritual video game, also in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Excellent link. . . .
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