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All four are immediately overcome by lassitude, and fall into a deep sleep.

not any mystery whatsoever will be eerie; there must be a sense of alterity

a requiem for the Sixties: a dark parable about the thanatropic drives which youth messianism could nurture.

Some of the most powerful passages in Dick’s work are those in which there is an ontological interregnum: a traumatic unworlding is not yet given a narrative motivation

in an atmosphere of louche decadence, the business and cultural elite linger like models or gawp like voyeurs as they stand around a swimming pool