Philip.K. Dick - "Arena" 4/6

[whitenightf3]

Our world leaders lack empathy which is why they can drop bombs on defenceless women and children. They are non human!

[jorgesantoine24]

Deckard considered an ostrich but bought a goat, unless PKD wrote two endings to confuse us, like vespacurry suggests below. She threw his goat off the roof. Deckard went to animal row, desperate for an animal after having just retired 3 andys. He asked about a family of rabbits, the salesman says, 'Frankly you look more like a goat man to me.' Deckard says, 'What are the advantages to goats?' I nearly fell off my chair laughing. PKD writes it straight, not playing for laughs, brilliant!

[spacenoise5]

It wasn't an ostrich, it was Rick's Goat.

[b33jal]

@spacenoise5 I was just thinking the same thing.

[TheGaz76]

haha, look at that fella casually pissing against a tree in the garden while that lady walks pass.

[vespacurry]

Yhea he bough a goat.. couldn't afford the ostrich... well in the book I read thats what happened. But PKD could have had two versions out there just to confuse us all.

[dirtgerm1]

way to ruin two endings in one segment....

[Gibson889]

I thought Deckard bought a goat and not an ostrich even though he was planning on getting an ostrich

[UnoRaza]

"those are not your memories"

How in the heck did he plug the mind control in the sixties?

[cheekymonkey1979]

Terry, man, it's a damned goat. He can't afford the Ostrich.

[danger0usknowledge]

Would they pass a Turing test? DADOES was a

disappointment but only compared to the movie.

[mittens50]

I dont want to sound blunt but how can I put this? You're FUCKING WRONG. You don't understand that the book has a totally different vibe to the film and is a totally different experience.

[danger0usknowledge]

FUCK YEAH!!! A totally different, like, vibe, like wow.))

I'm saying that any comparison to the visual would HAVE to be a disappointment which says what? That you

can't compare them. FUCKING A!!!

[mychannelisgone]

"do you have any fruits or vegetables to declare" "2 WEEks"

[A1R5N1P3R]

A screamer who wanders in the night, awesome stuff, at least he had his womanizing down.

[ilovethepighat]

It was a goat! A GOAT!!!!

[Catfoodmadeofdogfood]

I really wish they wouldn't talk about book endings specifically, just general themes. Stop ruining the remaining Dick novels for me you bastards! Also, Terry Gilliam is annoying

[libertarianjury]

How sad that he was a victim of tyranny. One more reason to BE libertarian.

Perhaps the government men were convinced that he would find out they have been manufacturing a false reality for us all. What if they were worried that his next novel would function like a red pill in the Matrix, and cause the complete and utter breakdown of the illusion? This is highly likely. Not simply the complete destruction of the federal reserve, but the illusion that universal coercion is necessary...

[iscream22]

Im a libertarian myself and wanted Ron Paul for president, however most of the general public buys into the phony news and propaganda of mainstream media. They'd rather watch Dancing with The Stars every night than read a book or explore or think for themselves or try to make a difference. It takes a large amount of people to truly change our society.

Most people could care less about the federal reserve or the failing war on drugs or poverty, they're just looking out for themselves & its sad

[iaresloth]

@iscream22 long live the communist party.

[almanacofsleep]

I find it weird how libertarian has become a by word of laissez-faire capitalism and championed by people like Ron Paul, seeing as the very term was coined by an anarcho-communist, for most of the 19th and 20th century to be a libertarian is to be an anarchist/communist. I wonder how many so called libertarian today know this?

[teamcrumb]

@libertarianjury You're missing the point. His bias was loss, the shell of a dead sister, humane, deep, soulful themes, the fakery is society's necessary shapes. Of course its fake. Of course reality has another reality that is dormant, less issued, less spoken and acted upon, of course the dormant one is the one that has integrity, but that has nothing to do with outing the feds, its more like he was outing all of humanity

[GLYPHKING]

pkd is the man

[pumpmachine]

It was a Goat (A black female Nubian Goat), not an Ostrich - he never calls back the shop which he had inquired in regard to the Ostrich's price, which was more than he could afford.

[mahound9]

If you look carefully in Blade Runner, during the scene where Deckard is walking through the street, going to meet the snake manufacturer, there's an ostrich.