Author: L.E. Hansen

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The Places We Go

gardenOfPensivenessI do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to. ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings       ~ Image “Fairytale” by Junko Tamura

Oh yes. And a very smart man, a very sick man, (both the same) once said to me, It’s imperative that you have a place in your mind where you can go when you need. You won’t always have a book nearby, or a piano, or music, or something to cling to. When you need to go somewhere to retreat. Somewhere you can survive. Well, your mind that is. I don’t know how related or connected is your you and your mind.

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Reminders of Books

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So many photos, pieces of art, make me think of books. Here I have Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, Mutiny On The Bounty… But not Moby Dick. No, not that. The ship’s too small, the sea too calm. And there’s no dark November in my soul.

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About Phil

Philip Kindred Dick died in Santa Ana, California, on March 2, in 1982 (aged 53). Vintage Books & Anchor Books.

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“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.” —RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH by Philip K. Dick

In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick’s stature as our century’s greatest science fiction writer.

But and then. We always have to ask, especially with Sci-Fi, which is fiction, and which is the inside trip, the following of the yellow-brick road inside the gray matter. Valis.

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And So…

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway

∞  About that infinity sign.

A few years back, an overheard conversation by the copier: “So how do I get it to keep printing?” “No problem, just hit that upside down 8.” “It’s not upside down. It’s on its side.”

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A Little Madness

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So I read the book. Then I listened to all of the music. Then I looked up all of the social media places. Maybe that’s not the correct order for everything, but anyway. This is a tough book to categorize. It’s not for mainstream reading, but it certainly is a Read. It’s not going to appeal to everyone but it appeals to so much: music, madness, obsession, abuse, determination beyond imagining. I give it an A. But and then, you must read portions inside before the purchase. It’s not something you’d give as a present to everyone. But a present it is.