The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick Date: 2022-05-31 | Shall we make arrangements?” Childan said, seizing this correct | psychological instant Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-05-31 | It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not | governed and governing, but people Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-01 | Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that | for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, | the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we livein. The madmen are | in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-01 | Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or. you | are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware | of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses | . . . what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this | city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do | they guess, glimpse, the truth . . . ? But, he thought, what does | it mean, insane? A legal definition. What do I mean? I feel it, | see it, but what is it? Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-01 | It is their sense of space and time. They see through the here, | the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And | that is fatal to life. Because eventually there will be no life; | there was once only the dust particles in space, the hot hydrogen | gases, nothing more, and it will come again. This is an interval, | ein Augenblick. The cosmic process is hurrying on, crushing life | back into the granite and methane; the wheel turns for all life. It | is all temporary. And they—these madmen—respond to the granite, | the dust, the longing of the inanimate; they want to aid Natur Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-01 | And, he thought, I know why. They want to be the agents, not the | victims, of history. They identify with God’s power and believe | they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome | by some archetype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that | they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-01 | Gresham’ ‘S Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-01 | should take my tools, get my motors from McCarthy, open my shop, | start my piddling business, go on despite the horrible line. Be | working, creating in my own way right up to the end, living as best | I can, as actively as possible, until the wall falls back into | the moat for all of us, all mankind. That’s what the oracle is | telling me. Fate will poleax us eventually anyhow, but I have my | job in the meantime; I must use my mind, my hands. The judgment | was for me alone, for my work. But the line; it was for us all Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-01 | And—must have all other artifacts in stock examined by University | lab. But—suppose many of them are nonauthentic? Difficult matter Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-02 | Pled case directly to German people for remnant of Slavic peoples | to exist on reservationlike closed regions in Heartland area Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-02 | His prognosis was gloomy. He feels that most highplaced Nazis are | refusing to face facts vis-à-vis their economic plight. By doing | so, they accelerate the tendency toward greater tour de force | adventures, less predictability, less stability in general. The | cycle of manic enthusiasm, then fear, then Partei solutions of a | desperate type—well, the point he got across was that all this | tends to bring the most irresponsible and reckless aspirants to the | top.” Mr. Tagomi nodded. “So we must presume that the worst, | rather than the best, choice will be made, The sober and responsible | elements will be defeated in the present clash.” Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-02 | But,” Paul said, “it deals with alternate present. Many | well-known science fiction novels of that sort.” To Robert he | explained, “Pardon my insistence in this, but as my wife knows, | I was for a long time a science fiction enthusiast. I began that | hobby early in my life; I was merely twelve. It was during the | early days of the war Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-02 | Tomorrow I will have to go out and buy that Grasshopper book, he | told himself. It’ll be interesting to see how the author depicts | a world run by Jews and Communists, with the Reich in ruins, Japan | no doubt a province of Russia; in fact, with Russia extending from | the Atlantic to the Pacific. I wonder if he—whatever his name | is—depicts a war between Russia and the U.S.A.? Interesting book, | he thought. Odd nobody thought of writing it before Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-03 | grip Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-03 | No doubt about it, he thought as he hung up the phone. The Colt | .44 affair had shaken him considerably. He no longer viewed his | stock with the same reverence. Bit of knowledge like that goes a | long way. Akin to primal childhood awakening; facts of life. Shows, | he ruminated, the link with ourearly years: not merely U.S. history | involved, but our own personal. As if, he thought, question might | arise as to authenticity of our birth certificate. Or our impression | of Dad. Maybe I don’t actually recall F.D.R. as example. Synthetic | image distilled from hearing assorted talk. Myth implanted subtly | in tissue of brain. Like, he thought, myth of Hepplewhite. Myth | of Chippendale. Or rather more on lines of Abraham Lincoln ate | here. Used this old silver knife, fork, spoon. You can’t see it, | but the fact remains Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-03 | And these markets, the countless millions of China, set the factories | in Detroit and Chicago to humming; that vast mouth could never be | filled, those people could not in a hundred years be given enough | trucks or bricks or steel ingots or clothing or typewriters or canned | peas or clocks or radios or nosedrops. The American workman, by 1960, | had the highest standard of living in the world, and all due to what | they genteelly called “the most favored nation” clause in every | commercial transaction with the East. The U.S. no longer occupied | Japan, and she had never occupied China; and yet the fact could | not be disputed: Canton and Tokyo and Shanghai did not buy from the | British; they bought American. And with each sale, the workingman | in Baltimore or Los Angeles or Atlanta saw a little more prosperity Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-03 | Only, Communists sneaked in Pan-Slavic Peter the Great empire | ambitions along with it, made social reform means for imperial | ambitions Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-03 | Pleased Mr. Baynes, Mr. Tagomi thought. Delight on order of cat | tossed piece of salmon, for instance fatty nice tail. He jiggled | the hook, then dialed speedily the Adhirati Hotel Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-03 | You and I—we have no awareness of the vast number of | uneducated. They can obtain from mold-produced identical objects | a joy which would be denied to us. We must suppose that we have | the only one of a kind, or at least something rare, possessed | by a very few. And, of course, something truly authentic. Not a | model or replica.” He continued to gaze past Childan, at empty | space. “Not something cast by the tens of thousands Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-04 | Of course. Whole affair a cruel dismissal of American efforts, | taking place before his eyes. Cynicism, but God forbid, he had | swallowed hook, line and sinker. Got me to agree, step by step, led | me along the garden path to this conclusion: products of American | hands good for nothing but to be models for junky good-luck charms Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-04 | triumvirate Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-05 | Sir,” Mr. Tagomi said, “I will buy one of those, whichever you | select. I have no faith, but I am currently grasping at straws Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4 Date: 2022-06-05 | This girl is a dathnon. A little chthonic spirit that—“ He lifted | his hand and rubbed his eyebrow, partially dislodginghis glasses in | doing so. “That roams tirelessly over the face of the earth.” He | restored his glasses in place. “She’s doing what’s instinctive | to her, simply. expressing her being. She didn’t mean to show up | here and do harm; it simply happened to her, just as the weather | happens to us Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 4