In his undelivered speech "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later," Dick recounts how in describing an incident at the end of the book (end of chapter 27) to an Episcopalian priest, the priest noted its striking similarity to a scene in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible.

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Thinking that this will lead him to become a superior being like her (and for the obvious reason), the astronaut accepts the offer. It's mentioned that in the future society, family-friendly media may freely display naked female breasts (and even animate them in titillating ways), as long as no more than one breast is visible at a time. An excellent recent recording of the seven “Lachrimae” by the young French viol consort Sit Fast pairs a slow, illuminating performance with a work by the contemporary British composer George Benjamin.Subverted when the "memory" turns out to be a psychic vision of the protagonist's future death, which he can do nothing to avoid. Masquerade: In "Adjustment Team", the story's protagonist stumbles into a world that is in effect behind the scenes of the observable world where omnipotent beings alter the flow of reality to fit some kind of ineffable design. This is also a lengthy business which, although necessary to the plot, helps to cloud the central statement. It isn’t the universe which is being entombed by layers of wind, cold, darkness and ice; all this is going on within me, and yet I seem to see it outside. In what may be a reference to the way nobody ever plays Monopoly by the actual rules, the customs team tasked with inspecting the game to make sure it's safe to import fail to notice the psychological warfare aspects of the rules because they just glance over the rule sheet and go "Oh, it's just like Monopoly".

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The Turning Wheel" is set on some apocalyptic post-nuclear war Earth, far enough in the future that nobody remembers how Detroit got its name. His mouthpiece characters claim abortion is all about powerful people deliberately picking on the helpless, or a certain kind of woman getting off on destroying men and children.But as Dowland proceeds through his sequence, it remains up to the listener’s fancy to supply extra-musical sensations — sighs, or the subtle harmonic and melodic and contrapuntal differences between garden-variety sad tears, exaggerated tears or true tears. Literal-Minded: Short story "The Eyes Have It" is a comic spin on Dick's usual alien invasion plots. Often, they would be shaped by the warped social structure around them, while the archetypal Dick protagonist was the Only Sane Man ( naturally, well-versed in classical music and esoteric philosophy and all the other things Dick himself enjoyed) who had the morality and tenacity to see through the false value system. The hero Jennings has just had his memory erased of the top secret project he was working on, only to discover that before it happened he arranged to substitute his paycheck with several seemingly trivial and useless items, including a small piece of wire. Prestige Peril: In Solar Lottery, the highest position in the solar system, the Quizmaster, is chosen by a completely random lottery.