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Greetings,
My name is The Cosmic Walrus, and since this is my first post, I'd like to introduce myself, briefly. Barbelith was introduced to me my a good friend of mine who discovered it after I introduced him to Grant Morrison and The Invisibles. I've been hooked on "The Temple" ever since. I look forward to conversing with all of you.
I'd like to bring to your attention an interesting set of documents I've come across recently while researching the scifi author Philip K. Dick. Dick is an extremely interesting character, and as most of you undoubtedly know, had a series of mystical experiences and became increasingly eccentric before his death. What I have come across is a series of letters Dick wrote to the FBI well before his mystical experiences, (he called them "2-3-74" for Feb/Mar of '74) or eccentric behaviour. Apparently according to the letters, Dick was approached a shady character that tried to coerce him to insert "coded information" into his novels, which he outright refused to do. Here is an excerpt:
"Gentlemen:
I am a well-known author of science fiction novels, one of which dealt with Nazi Germany (called MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, it described an "alternate world" in which the Germans and Japanese won World War Two and jointly occupied the United States). This novel, published in 1962 by Putnam & Co., won the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year and hence was widely read both here and abroad; for example, a Japanese edition printed in Tokio (sic) ran into several editions. I bring this to your attention because several months ago I was approached by an individual who I have reason to believe belonged to a covert organization involving politics, illegal weapons, etc., who put great pressure on me to place coded information in future novels "to be read by the right people here and there," as he phrased it. I refused to do this."
http://www.alphane.com/moon/PalmTree/fbi.htm
An interesting read to be sure, and also the site which the letters is hosted on has some interesting Dick information as well. (http://www.alphane.com/moon/PalmTree/index.htm)
Goodluck and Godspeed,
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