Re: VMs: Folio and Quire numbers

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 18:32 02/04/2004 +0100, Anthony wrote:
> Also short story "What Rough Beast" by (I think) Damon Knight where the
> narrator could see and move between them. Another 1950s story.

In his later years, Philip K. Dick claimed to be flicking inbetween two 
parallel universes, one of them where the Roman Empire never fell (and with 
Richard Nixon as the current Emperor in this one). He wrote about this 
(most famously) in his book VALIS: and might therefore have had little 
trouble answering the "Give two examples" question. :-o

Interestingly, there are recent suggestions that he may also have suffered 
temporal lobe epilepsy, perhaps giving rise to hypergraphia. His answer 
would therefore be unlikely to be short. :-)
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick

PKD also apparently once experienced a bout of glossolalia, speaking in an 
Ancient Greek dialect: all good VMs motifs we've learnt to embrace. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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