Welcome to the simulacra… Rambling, from me.

I have been listening To Philip Glass alot recently, (he has a great “listen to his music” thing here: http://www.philipglass.com/html/pages/glass-engine.html)

His range of styles, and the sheer depth of his music seems to have captured me in a way i havn’t felt before, fantastic “before sleep” pieces.

I am reading though the Transmigration of timothy archer (as mentioned below), which is amazing, as expected from PKD. It deals with death in ways quite differently to anything I have read before, looking alot at why people have the will to live, and how strong that force is. Quite fitting i guess, as it was the last book he wrote before his death, a fantastic final work.

Currently Reading: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - Philip K Dick

Quote of the day: “I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel & story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception. The core of my writing is not art but truth. Thus what I tell is the truth, yet I can do nothing to alleviate it, either by deed or explanation. Yet this seems somehow to help a certain kind of sensitive troubled person, for whom I speak. I think I understand the common ingredient in those whom my writing helps: they cannot or will not blunt their own intimations about the irrational, mysterious nature of reality, &, for them, my corpus of writing is one long ratiocination regarding thisinexplicable reality, an investigation & presentation, analysis & response & personal history. My audience will always be limited to those people.” - Philip K Dick