Hamlet ~ Saturday, December 9, 2023

Hamlet

O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count
myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I
have bad dreams.

Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2

Arthur Miller ~ Saturday, August 26, 2023

WILLY: [...] The grass don't grow any more, you can't raise a carrot in the back yard.

Death of a Salesman, p. 165, 1949.

Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961, The Library of America, 2006.

PKD ~ Monday, August 7, 2023

     It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.

Philip K. Dick ~ The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), p. 329

[...] You realize you took a decisively wrong course in your life and nobody made you do it. And it can't be repaired.

Philip K. Dick ~ The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), p. 406

Four Novels of the 1960s. The Library of America, 2007, edited by Jonathan Lethem

Philip K. Dick ~ Monday, July 10, 2023

[Racism in Character] 

  You have to watch out, Reiss reflected, or all at once you find yourself consul to a bunch of niggers on an island off the coast of South Africa. And the next you know, you have a black mammy for a mistress, and ten or eleven little pickaninnies calling you daddy.

p. 111. The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick.

Four Novels of the 1960s. The Library of America. New York, 2007. Edited by Jonathan Lethem.

   Bliss said, "Those Communists are the real menace, not the Germans. Take the treatment of the Jews. You know who makes a lot out of that? Jews in this country, a lot of them not citizens but refugees living on public welfare. I think the Nazis certainly have been a little extreme in some of the things they've done to the Jews, but basically there's been the Jewish question for a long time, and something, although maybe not so vile as those concentration camps, had to be done about it. We have a similar problem here in the United States, both with Jews and with the niggers. Eventually we're going to have to do something about both."

p. 740. Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick.

Four Novels of the 1960s. The Library of America. New York, 2007. Edited by Jonathan Lethem.