Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

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Love isn’t just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. … Love is — she paused, reflecting — like a father saving his children from a burning house, getting them out and dying himself. When you love you cease to live for yourself; you live for another person.” But look at the aspirations of that rabbit and look at his failing. A little life trying. And all the time it was hopeless. But the rabbit didn't know that. Or maybe did know and kept trying anyhow. But I think he didn't understand. He just wanted to do it so badly. It was his whole life, because he loved the cats.” God in Human Form: Emmanuel, the main character in the novel The Divine Invasion, is, in actuality, the Judeo-Christian God—and he lost his memories in a car accident. Am I honestly supposed to believe that a world in which not everyone cares about the existence of a pompous white dude is some kind of dystopia? Most peculiar of all, why do we emerge from the tearjerker opera, movie or novel feeling better? Why is there humor in melancholy, be it in Burton’s “Anatomy” or, say, Lars von Trier’s startling movie “ Melancholia”? That is the territory — in which emotion meets analysis and philosophy and music theory — that Dowland explores with merciless abstraction.

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Second Variety" is in a post-apocalyptic aftermath where there's not much left on Earth but soldiers underground and killer robots, most of above-ground Earth having been blasted into ruins. The answer to that, I suppose, is that writers must live and, to live, must produce. My personal recipe — to work for a living and write in one’s spare time — seems to appeal to nobody but myself. But it would certainly reduce the enormous output of indigestible, infuriating professional science fiction which its writers should be ashamed of. And possibly would be, if it wasn’t a question of baby’s new shoes.Floyd Jones, the driving character (though almost never the viewpoint character) of The World Jones Made, can see a year into the future. Too bad his future sight is actually made of memories broadcast by his future self to his past self, essentially stripping him of free will. The blue vase, made by Mary Anne … wound up in a private collection of modern pottery. It remains there to this day, and is much treasured. And, in fact, by a number of people who know ceramics, openly and genuinely cherished. And loved. It was obvious that in some way Taverner had become the pea in in some sort of cosmic shell game - but how? And why?

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Being a super-popular but jaded tv celebrity, Jason is going to have a sardonic attitude about that. And he'll also be something of a fugitive; a pawn in the hands of (what else?) the police state. Things always tend to be much livelier in an alternate reality; kind of like a French farce, only deadlier. And eventually - here - much darker.Years of drug abuse (which inspired A Scanner Darkly, where he lists himself as a victim of this, and possibly fed into those weird thoughts detailed above) led to his death in 1982 of heart failure at age 53. The actual plot (incorporating a small parade of peripheral women, the way a James Bond novel might) is not all that complicated, it may just seem that way due to some of the sci-fi elements and jargon. None of that should throw you. You. Do. Not. Need. To. Slow. Down. Your. Reading. To. 'Get. It.' All. All that you need to understand will be revealed, just keep going.