🚀 go-pugleaf

Paul Callahan wrote:
> 
> In article <327CC0EC.A9D@flinet.com>, Randy Carmine  <hentai@flinet.com> wrote:
> >Jennifer's Pet Madman wrote:
> >>
> >> Anna Banana (banana@gold.interlog.com) posted:
> >>
> >> : Most people do have amazing inner lives.
> >>
> >> No they don't. Most people, even most brilliant schizophrenic Sci-Fi
> >> writers, are preoccupied with trivial horseshit -- and do it badly.
> >
> >       Everyone is preoccupied with trivial horseshit, but that doesn't mean
> >they don't do/haven't done, some damned interesting things in their
> >lives.
> 
> I'd just like to interject here that even if you accept _A Scanner Darkly_
> as largely autobiographical, the most you could infer is that PKD was
> obsessed with dog shit, not horse shit.  And it wasn't his fault.  It
> was something that woman said.  Things stick in your mind, you know.  It
> can happen to anyone.  You'd think at least someone living in
> Baltimore "If there is a scoop law, they sure don't enforce it" Maryland
> would understand.

	And that, obviously, was a beautiful example of of the "insanity"
portion promised in the subject header.

				R. Carmine