PARANOIA PLUS A GENERATION EQUALS REALITY:
Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost . . .
Weh! steck' ich in dem Kerker noch?
Verfluchtes dumpfes Mauerloch,
Wo selbst das liebe Himmelslicht
Trub durch gemalte Sheiben bricht!
Beschrank mit diesem Bucherhauf,
Den Wurme nagen, Staub bedeckt,
Den bis ans hohe.
. . .perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious fragment as well. A portion of him turns against him and acts like another person, defeating him from inside. A man inside a man. Which is no man at all.
(Variety has a review -- Justin Chang, from Cannes -- of A SCANNER DARKLY, the new Richard Linklater animated feature based on the novel by Philip K. Dick. And, while we're at it, here's a short convo with Linklater's reflections on the project -- and on PKD adaptations more broadly -- while in production last year.)
The creature had many eyes, all over it, ultra-modern expensive-looking clothing, and rose up eight feet high. Also, it carried an enormous scroll.
"You're going to read me my sins," Charles Freck said.
The creature nodded and unrolled the scroll.
Freck said, lying helpless on the bed, "and it's going to take a hundred thousand hours."
Fixing its many compound eyes on him, the creature from between dimensions said, "We are no longer in the mundane universe. Lower-plane categories of material existence such as 'space' and 'time' no longer apply to you. You have been eleveated to the transcendent realm. Your sins will be read to you ceaselessly, in shifts, throughout eternity. The list will never end."
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