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Old 06-01-2020, 09:13 AM   #6838 (permalink)
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I'm crazy about anything that has vaguely gnostic undercurrents, so I knew I'd like Valis. (I originally started reading it several months ago after finishing The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, which I was obsessed with, since I too was fully unhinged at the time + eyeballs-deep in my gnosticism phase)
I came at it after reading Crumb's The religious experience of P.K.Dick, which was probably a very light version of the events, but definitely helped add an additional layer to reading VALIS, I'm not sure if I would have been so impressed if I hadn't know it was semi-autobiographical.
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