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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: VALIS: insanity and religion
- Message-ID: <930122.125223.9Q8.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:52:23 GMT
- References: <gj156879.727630147@cunews>
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- gj156879@alfred.carleton.ca ( gj student 156879) writes:
- > Valis was a great novel, and the main characters religious experiences
- > were very similar to symptoms of schizophrenia.
-
- There are also marked similarities to the symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy
- which John A. Johnson has posted about.
-
- > Check out "A SCANNER DARKLY", which is a damned fine read, also by
- > Philip K Dick. Sort of a 60s paranoid fantasy that blew me away when
- > I read it. Also, not there are some bigtime similarities between
- > VALIS and RADIOFREE ALBERMUTH, another amazing book. (The pink laser
- > occurs in both, if I recall correctly...)
-
- Yes. Also in Radio Free Albemuth a transistor radio whispers secret threats
- and messages to people while they're half asleep. Meanwhile, Ferris F.
- Fremont is being elected president, and of course FFF = 666...
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- mathew
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