In his dreams, Fat receives a cipher that allows him to make contact with Eric and Linda Lampton, who together star in a science fiction film that has eerie parallels to Fat's experiences. He calls the being that beams information into his head Zebra, for its ability to hide until the time is right. Fat, by contrast, concludes that the universe is ruled by irrationality and that space and time do not exist. Phil fears that Fat has lost all touch with reality. Phil has successfully stopped taking drugs but cannot help himself from helping others, and the deaths of two women friends shake him badly. He begins spending his nights composing an enormous journal, which he calls the Exegesis and later extracts into a briefer Tractate that deals with how the cosmos is formed. Some of the information transmitted to him in a burst of pink laser light saves son Christopher's life, for it reveals an overlooked hernia, which is successfully repaired.įat also experiences troubling visions of rushing, floating colors and visions of Ancient Rome and modern California superimposing and merging in time. Elmo's Fire and takes on a new, unfamiliar personality. Fat attempts suicide twice before he first confides to Phil in March of 1974 vivid dreams about three-eyed people. Phil is a cool, pragmatic individual while Fat is a rich Renaissance mind disintegrating into insanity. Phil, a successful science fiction author, narrates the story but often in Fat's voice, claiming that this provides objectivity. Dick is a fictionalized, partial autobiography. Dick and his alter ego, Horselover Fat, as an extraterrestrial power draws him towards its Gnostic message of the conquest of evil and death. Valis follows the spiritual quest of author Philip K.
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