That's Dick's Exegesis under his semi-autobiographical novel VALIS
I'm halfway through reading 'VALIS' and then have the last two of his books to read before startingon his 'Exegesis', which I'm really looking forward to reading ... NOT!
The published version of Dick's 'Exegesis'is apparently one tenth the size of the original.
I found it amusing when getting up this morning to tear off the previous date of my Chinese wall calendar to see the May the 4th page and to see my other pictures of Brisbane(and surrounds)wall calender had a picture of the Japanese gardensinToowoomba, as I hadn't along finished watching and readingDick's'The Man in the High Castle' where he had a Japanese guy tossing the Chinese I Ching ... what a Dick?!
My original plan was to have finished reading all of Dick's books including his 'Exegesis' by March2024, but you know what they say, "if you want to make GodZebra laugh tell GodZerba your plans";-)
It was listening tothese Dickheads above at'42 Minutes'for about the last 10 years that got me into buyingDick's novel 'VALIS' and his 'Exegesis'to see for myself just what kind of "prophet" he was.
I'm only interested in Dick's semi-autobiography and stories from a pop-culturalperspective, not because I think he was a "prophet".
I think he was a drugged out religious nut bag, who read a lot of historical fantasy and fact and spewed it back up on paper in what he thought of as the truth.
It's a pity Dick died before he could write'The Owl in the Daylight', as I would have liked to have read what he thought about owls.
"The Owl in Daylight is a novel Philip K. Dick was writing at the time of his death in 1982. He had already been paid an advance for the book by the publisher and was working against a deadline. After his death, his estate approached other writers about the possibility of someone completing the novel based on his notes, but that proved to be impossible, as he had never formally outlined the story. Dick viewed the novel as his Finnegans Wake."
I've been listening to the latest podcasts that my old mate Mike Clellandhas been on, telling all about his latest semi-autobiographical work of fiction.
I've also been listening to podcasts about what people who have read VALIS thought about it.
I found it amusing when getting up this morning to tear off the previous date of my Chinese wall calendar to see the May the 4th page and to see my other pictures of Brisbane (and surrounds) wall calender had a picture of the Japanese gardens in Toowoomba, as I hadn't along finished watching and reading Dick's 'The Man in the High Castle' where he had a Japanese guy tossing the Chinese I Ching ... what a Dick?! 
It's a pity Dick died before he could write 'The Owl in the Daylight', as I would have liked to have read what he thought about owls.
I've also been listening to podcasts about what people who have read VALIS thought about it.
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