Valis (Q1320318)

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1981 novel by Philip K. Dick
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Valis
1981 novel by Philip K. Dick

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    Valis (English)
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    14 chapter
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    1 appendix
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    Horselover Fat’s nervous breakdown began the day he got the phonecall from Gloria asking if he had any Nembutals. (English)
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    As we had been told, originally, long ago, to do; I kept my commission. (English)
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    VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intelligence System, from an American film): A perturbation in the reality field in which a spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements of information. Characterized by quasiconsciousness, purpose, intelligence, growth and an armillary coherence. (English)
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