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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 15, 2017
One of PKD's best titles is 'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said'. Unfortunately, not one of his best books.
'Galactic Pot Healer' is also a good title.
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minorvogonpoet Posted Oct 15, 2017
I think the best fiction does enhance the readers' ideas about the world and how people live. That doesn't mean preaching sermons, but showing these people living in this way, in this place. So, suddenly, the reader thinks 'Oh, that's how it would be. I understand now."
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minorvogonpoet Posted Oct 15, 2017
I was just wondering what you would put in a Galactic Pot Healer'?
Not I hope. The best lemons from Alpha Centauri, Golgafrinchan , a few from Kent before the earth got destroyed, and as a pick-me-up?
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cactuscafe Posted Oct 15, 2017
Love the PKD titles.
I do love a title.
Sometimes I read album covers, the list of song titles reads like a poem. Sort of. And reading along a bookshelf is good, reading all the book titles as one poem.
I have no life.
What??? I think mvp has been on the herself. I love it.
You know these little smileys that move? Like, , and and there's some others.
I wonder what makes them move? Clever, whoever invented them.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 15, 2017
Here's a book that does just what you said, MVP:
http://archive.org/stream/littleprudysdott00clar#page/44/mode/2up
Warning: Dotty Dimple is a terror. Even at two, she's sort of a psychopath.
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cactuscafe Posted Oct 16, 2017
Dotty Dimple?? I love it.
Yes, good what you said, mvp, about how the best fiction enhances perception.
Strange light this morning! Kind of yellow. Must be some kind of dust in the atmosphere. We're on the edge of Hurricane, now Storm, Ophelia, here in the South West. Lots of leaves spiralling and swirling!
Plus a curious orange sun appearing through the yellow dusty atmosphere. Looked like sunrise, at 11.30 am, only of course the sun was higher in the sky.
I took a few pics from the park. Will see if they've come out.
Plus, lots and lots of helicopters suddenly fluttering out of the sky, taken by a gust of wind!!!
No photo, damn, it all happened too fast!
Helicopters? Yes, you know, those whirly sycamore seeds.
We used to call them helicopters, in childhood.
I was standing with a passing lovely couple and their granddaughter, in the park, observing the strange orange sun, and all watching the helicopters!!
Nice to share the experiences.
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FWR Posted Oct 16, 2017
In other news...millions of tiny pixie folk left the earth this morning from their spaceport in a park in the south west, thousands of space craft, resembling sycamore seeds could actually be seen with the naked human eye....the time of the great red sun is upon faerie land!
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cactuscafe Posted Oct 16, 2017
heheh, love it!!! A classic. In fact, quite an amazing picture.
Strange, because the lady I was watching with did say something like 'there's something very strange going on.'
Illustrated story please, you two. I insist.
My phone snapshots of The Great Red Sun are useless!
The Sun looks like a tiny tangerine, lost and alone, with no other tangerines to talk to in a vast universe of fruit planets. There's not even an or a .
So its over to the pros.
The (Storm)Ophelia Exodus.
Curious names written in strange silver script on the sides of the craft. P-o-l-onius, L..a...er..tes...Yor-i-c-k, Gh..ost...
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cactuscafe Posted Oct 16, 2017
Actually my Tiny Tangerine pic really is very strange.
There's no park in it, not a sycamore tree to speak of, just the top of a nearby office building, which has come out purple.
Ah, little whirring craft ... G -ertr-ude
No, that's not in the pic.
What was going on today???
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cactuscafe Posted Oct 16, 2017
Oh lordy lorks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41635906
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cactuscafe Posted Oct 16, 2017
OK, , I'll send you my tangerine in the sky, and purple office block. Perhaps you and FWR can modify it in some way. Add some effects, and whirring craft.
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