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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