all symptoms are purposeful, whether they are positive or negative.

Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly

Hermetic quote Dick Scanner symptoms

Consider also:

  1. “we’ll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms”
  2. “the Rosicrucians were telepathically beaming pictures at him”
  3. “To survive in this fascist police state, he thought, you gotta always be able to come up with a name, your name. At all times. That’s the first sign they look for that you’re wired, not being able to figure out who the hell you are.”
  4. “silence is but the negative side of Truth; the positive side is beyond even silence.”
  5. Greater Feast of Philip K Dick