tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547065615486762917.post6850334477894932752..comments2024-01-06T05:28:46.111-05:00Comments on Matt Paust's Crime Time : THE SHIFTING REALITIES OF PHILP K. DICK: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings – Edited by Lawrence SutinMathew Pausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547065615486762917.post-32331384049649631982016-01-26T11:49:04.232-05:002016-01-26T11:49:04.232-05:00Theodore Sturgeon, describing his first meeting wi...Theodore Sturgeon, describing his first meeting with Dick: "I felt as though I'd been through a hurricane that night." I suspect in person he might have come across as on the order of Robin Williams on crystal meth. It's a wonder his fingers on a keyboard could could keep up with his mind.Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547065615486762917.post-90364160593388347982016-01-23T02:16:29.263-05:002016-01-23T02:16:29.263-05:00Algis Budrys noted that it was remarkable that Dic...Algis Budrys noted that it was remarkable that Dick was writing so much on speed, since speed-driven prose was prone to logorrhea, as Hunter Thompson might be noted as demonstrating (Budrys not responsible for that last observation). If Dick's reporting of his diagnosis can be believed, That might explain that. Ace Books, Dick's most important market in the '50s and early '60s, was not the most generous nor cash-rich of publishers, so he wasn't pulling down Fawcett Gold Medal-level money for his paperback originals...I'm reminded of Patricia Highsmith's complaints about how little she was making from her books published by Knopf in the same years...even the prolific and ell-regarded, as both were, could have it tough...his early work is less distinctive, and perhaps indicative of fewer demons and/or VALISes messing with him, or how such matters simply worsened over time, but certainly his best early work, such as "Upon the Dull Earth." is as powerful as anything he would ever write, and idicative of the imagination and hallucinatory power of his best work throughout his life.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com