Episode 90: 'The Owl in Daylight': On Philip K. Dick's Unwritten Masterpiece - a podcast by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Weird Studies has so far devoted just one show to Philip K. Dick, and that was way back in April 2018, with episode 10, "Adrift in the Multiverse." Last fall, as another foray into Dickland began to feel urgent, Phil and JF talked about which of his books they should tackle. The answer that seemed obvious was VALIS, the semi/pseudo-autobiographical masterpiece that constitutes PKD's most explicit attempt to make sense of the theophanic experiences that altererd his life in 1974. But then Phil suggested The Owl in Daylight, a novel on which PKD worked feverishly in the last years of his life but left unwritten. And sure enough, reviewing and analyzing a book that doesn't exist proved to be the best way of getting to the heart of Dick's incomparable oeuvre.
SHOW NOTESGwen Lee, What if Our World is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick (https://www.amazon.com/World-Their-Heaven-Conversations-Philip/dp/1585673781)
The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, volume 6 (https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Letters-Philip-1980-82-Dicks/dp/1887424261)Philip K. Dick, [The Exegesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheExegesisofPhilipK.Dick)_Anonymous, [Meditations on the Tarot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeditationsontheTarot)_Secondary qualities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary/secondary_quality_distinction), philosophical concept
Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAoLJ8GbA4Y)Burt Bacharach, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Bacharach) American musician
Philip K. Dick, "The Preserving Machine" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1902160.The_Preserving_Machine)Jorge Borges, "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Approach_to_Al-Mu'tasim)
The Good Place (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4955642/), American television seriesPhilip K. Dick, Valis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis)
Weird Studies, Episode 78 on John Keel's 'Mothman Prophesies' (https://www.weirdstudies.com/78)Richard Wagner, Parsifal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsifal)
Weird Studies, Episode 73 on Carl Jung (https://www.weirdstudies.com/73)

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