Victor “Vic” Nielson One evening Philip K. Dick looked for a light cord in his bathroom, with no recollection of one ever being there. How does one write a science fiction novel about that? The same phenomenon transpires with Vic Nielson, and it is the first establishment of dubiousness into the narrative infrastructure of the novel. It is possible that there had been a light cord in the apartment where Vic Nielson used to live before his conditioning. Vic’s experience has a definite importance, as it allows us to understand a great number of instances of Ragle’s path through different level of reality. Vic acknowledges the lacunal gap of his cultural conditioning. Vic Nielson is a vital representation of neurosis as he lucidly accepts illusion.
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Which, would commence political differences between Ragle and Vic, as well as the latter’s lack of personal judgment. In the last lines of the novel, Vic clearly knows it is an illusion, but he asks to go back, “Any way to get out of here?” (254). This moment is critical. Vic’s outlook can only be understood if one remembers how closely the two worlds, Old Town and the 1998 reality, are interrelated and codependent. An invisible oppression lies at the bottom of our daily lives, especially when we are so limited by the power of a conditioning because it is so ubiquitous. It is a single world, 1959 and 1998 are interdependent. Philip K. Dick entails to us of our own lives. His political thought already transcends the simple criticism of his present. It attains the universal, and must manage to crack our day-to-day existence. The reader may realize the relational power’s capability of masking how profoundly underground we are shut in, working without interlude for outcomes and stakes we cannot even suspect. Faced with this situation, many will still find such a lie acceptable, rather than taking their own life into their hands and being responsible for the future and the possibilities that lie in their own depths–if they have not in the meantime undergone Manfred Steiner’s
Which, would commence political differences between Ragle and Vic, as well as the latter’s lack of personal judgment. In the last lines of the novel, Vic clearly knows it is an illusion, but he asks to go back, “Any way to get out of here?” (254). This moment is critical. Vic’s outlook can only be understood if one remembers how closely the two worlds, Old Town and the 1998 reality, are interrelated and codependent. An invisible oppression lies at the bottom of our daily lives, especially when we are so limited by the power of a conditioning because it is so ubiquitous. It is a single world, 1959 and 1998 are interdependent. Philip K. Dick entails to us of our own lives. His political thought already transcends the simple criticism of his present. It attains the universal, and must manage to crack our day-to-day existence. The reader may realize the relational power’s capability of masking how profoundly underground we are shut in, working without interlude for outcomes and stakes we cannot even suspect. Faced with this situation, many will still find such a lie acceptable, rather than taking their own life into their hands and being responsible for the future and the possibilities that lie in their own depths–if they have not in the meantime undergone Manfred Steiner’s