"The Man in the High Castle" and its impact on Pynchon's work

[Robin Landseadel]

On Nov 9, 2010, at 7:24 AM, David Morris wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Read "High Castle" for the first time last year. The fun thing  
>> about PKD is the way that he plays with identity and the nature of  
>> perception vs reality.
>
> Something he had to strive with continually, being a schizophrenic.

Or, perhaps even worse, a True Gnostic.

Just because you're having hellacious visions doesn't mean they're not  
immanentizing the eschaton.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/duver001/nwn/010201.html