I’m rereading VALIS by Philip K. Dick, and the analogy I’ve landed on is that mids weed is to psilocybin as PKD is to Pynchon.
maybe I ought to write more about this, and about literature generally, like essays and criticism or whatever. I dunno tho I kind of hate my literary critic voice, plus I’m too lazy to dwell long enough on any one work or author to say anything interesting. but also it would benefit me to work out my own opinions on my influences. hmm
what I really ought to do is yell at Adam for abandoning Story Time.
[…] things I read this year. the first book I finished was VALIS by PKD, which I briefly posted about a few days ago. then, in the days after finishing it, I had what can only be referred to as a kind of […]