typed letter signed claudia bush de dick philip (13 résultats)

Etat : Fine. Edition. Fullerton(?), California, No Publisher, 1975. . . A two-page (2pp) typed letter signed. The sour cream and Godot letter. Dated February 22nd 1975. The letter is signed by PKD with six corrections and a postscript all in the author's hand. Addressed to Claudia Bush. Bush commenced her dialogue with PKD whilst writing her thesis on him for her MA at Idaho State University. The thesis was published as "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick." Much of the Bush correspondence is held in the Willis E. McNelly collection at California State University Fullerton; they are scarce in commerce. This letter is written in the aftermath of his VALIS visions of 1974, which happened shortly after a wisdom tooth operation. Dick received a home delivery of opioids from a woman wearing a Christian Ichthys necklace. The symbol emitted a pink beam of light which was the catalyst for months of visionary experiences, including Dicks belief that his mind had been invaded by a benign but separate consciousness. The period of PKD's visions began in February or March of 1974, and continued for anywhere between two and 12 months. In What if Our World is Their Heaven, Dick asserts that this separate consciousness was present for one year. From February 1974 to February 1975 (p. 149). A particularly PKD-esque letter wherein PKD affectionately chides Claudia for her misunderstanding of the sour cream scene in UBIK, and its relationship to time, decay and the 'supposedly unliving world of things'. The letter then continues, on 'another subject.but not really', to discuss time and existence in Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Signed with the usual Phil and arrow-struck heart sketch. Staining to the edges, but nice enough. [11496, Hyraxia Books]. Signed by Author(s).

Etat : Fine. Edition. Santa Ana, CA, No Publisher, 1976. . . A three-page (3pp) typed letter signed. A fantastic letter. Dated June 11th 1976. The letter is signed by PKD with six corrections and a postscript all in the author's hand. Addressed to Claudia Bush. Bush commenced her dialogue with PKD whilst writing her thesis on him for her MA at Idaho State University. The thesis was published as "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick." Much of the Bush correspondence is held in the Willis E. McNelly collection at California State University Fullerton; they are scarce in commerce. This letter is written in the aftermath of his VALIS visions of 1974, which happened shortly after a wisdom tooth operation. Dick received a home delivery of opioids from a woman wearing a Christian Ichthys necklace. The symbol emitted a pink beam of light which was the catalyst for months of visionary experiences, including Dicks belief that his mind had been invaded by a benign but separate consciousness. The period of PKD's visions began in February or March of 1974, and continued for anywhere between two and 12 months. In What if Our World is Their Heaven, Dick asserts that this separate consciousness was present for one year. From February 1974 to February 1975 (p. 149). The present letter is more personal letter than his usual letters to Claudia wherein PKD discusses his current relationship with Donna and having moved in with her, his relationship with Tessa and his son Christopher ("In a way I miss Tessa and Christopher"), and finally an examination of his own state ("I think now, You don't try to be a good person; you just are what you are and do what you do, and if it's good, okay, and if not, then no, and the hell with it"). Brief mention of adaptations of The Man in the High Castle and A Scanner Darkly. A fair bit of staining to this one. [11495, Hyraxia Books]. Signed by Author(s).

Etat : Fine. Edition. Fullerton(?), California, No Publisher, 1975. . . A three-page (3pp) typed letter signed. Dated Feb 13th, 1975. The letter is signed by PKD with six corrections and a postscript all in the author's hand. Addressed to Claudia Bush. Bush commenced her dialogue with PKD whilst writing her thesis on him for her MA at Idaho State University. The thesis was published as "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick." Much of the Bush correspondence is held in the Willis E. McNelly collection at California State University Fullerton; they are scarce in commerce. This letter is written in the aftermath of his VALIS visions of 1974, which happened shortly after a wisdom tooth operation. Dick received a home delivery of opioids from a woman wearing a Christian Ichthys necklace. The symbol emitted a pink beam of light which was the catalyst for months of visionary experiences, including Dicks belief that his mind had been invaded by a benign but separate consciousness. The period of PKD's visions began in February or March of 1974, and continued for anywhere between two and 12 months. In What if Our World is Their Heaven, Dick asserts that this separate consciousness was present for one year. From February 1974 to February 1975 (p. 149). The present letter start with PKD discussing his understanding of the nature of reality, towards the end of the first page he starts tying this into his VALIS experience, and then evaluates it against Greek philosophy, with a discussion of neoplatoism. Small mention of Theodore Sturgeon, and Venus Plus X. Five minor corrections, signed with a arrow-struck heart sketch. Some staining to the edges. [11494, Hyraxia Books]. Signed by Author(s).

Unbound. Etat : Fine. Edition. Fullerton(?), California, No Publisher, 1975. . Unbound. A three-page (3pp) typed letter signed. A fantastic letter. Dated February 16th 1975. The letter is signed by PKD with nine amendments in the author's hand. Addressed to Claudia Bush. Bush commenced her dialogue with PKD whilst writing her thesis on him for her MA at Idaho State University. The thesis was published as "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick." Much of the Bush correspondence is held in the Willis E. McNelly collection at California State University Fullerton; they are scarce in commerce. This letter is written in the aftermath of his VALIS visions of 1974, which happened shortly after a wisdom tooth operation. Dick received a home delivery of opioids from a woman wearing a Christian Ichthys necklace. The symbol emitted a pink beam of light which was the catalyst for months of visionary experiences, including Dicks belief that his mind had been invaded by a benign but separate consciousness. The period of PKD's visions began in February or March of 1974, and continued for anywhere between two and 12 months. In What if Our World is Their Heaven, Dick asserts that this separate consciousness was present for one year. From February 1974 to February 1975 (p. 149). The present letter is three typed pages of PKD postulating about the nature of reality using Christian theology as a backdrop. It's a fascinating insight into how PKD rationalised his VALIS experience. The main crux is examining space time operating in two fashions, simultaneously: with an orthogonal time axis and in a cyclic manner, repeating each year (why the dimension of time should be oriented around the orbit of earth around the sun isn't discussed, but let's give him a break), and how these are sensed by the right and left brain. There's a brief mention of Theodore Sturgeon, and the usual cameo of Greek philosophers and Christ and his disciples. A fascinating, lengthy read. A short autograph addition to page two and a couple of corrections. Signed, Love, Phil with a heart. Small liquid stain to the edges, but it doesn't detract. [11178, Hyraxia Books]. Signed by Author(s).

Unbound. Etat : Fine. Edition. Fullerton(?), California, No Publisher, 1974. . Unbound. A three-page (3pp) typed letter signed. Date July 19, 1974. The letter is signed by PKD and has eight minor corrections. Addressed to Claudia Bush. Bush commenced her dialogue with PKD whilst writing her thesis on him for her MA at Idaho State University. The thesis was published as "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick." Much of the Bush correspondence is held in the Willis E. McNelly collection at California State University Fullerton; they are scarce in commerce. A wonderful letter offering a primary source for Dick's attempt to understand his 'visions' from around four months earlier, famously reported in his 1981 work VALIS. The letter was published in Underwood-Miller's Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick Volume Three (p192). In this letter PKD recounts to Bush how a bookseller had visited him mentioning that PKD's experiences were similar to those of Jim Pike. Pike was the Bishop of California whose life took a severe downward spiral after the suicide of his son in 1966. Pike had been accused of heresy by the church given his subversive stance on parts of the doctrine, but personally he had deep beliefs in the continuation of the spirit, a belief that share some kinship with Dick's own unpicking of his situation. In the letter PKD postulates that "all these ideas, all this classical information, was some how connected with Jim, somehow came from him." Later, PKD writes "It is only the mind which survives, in our words -- the psyche, which carries on its acquired knowledge rather than its character or personality into a reborn life on this world. Jim had said to these students that as one acquires knowledge one gets closer and closer to God; hence the transmission of acquired knowledge in the process of transmigration." - an interesting quote given that Pike was the basis for the eponymous character in PKD's final novel The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. We're further led into PKD's unpacking with this quote "I can never prove the Jim Pike came across to me, bringing with him all this healing wisdom from Attic Greece, but my friend's pinpointing my description of the material as 'sounding like what Jim Pike used to say' may come as close as I'll ever get." Further in this letter Dick describes, first hand, his 'visions' including the occurrence of the Golden Rectangle. There's also great quote from Tessa: "Pythagoras talks to him in his dreams and heals him." Finally, to round the letter off PKD attributes the visions etc. to the "what", Attic Greece the "where from", and Jim Pike as the "why" and also even the "how." The letter concludes with PKD rationalising, psychologically, his postulating and teeters between vanity and humility at the very end. All in all a fascinating take on how PKD was understanding his issues at the time. This letter is written in the aftermath of his VALIS visions of 1974, which happened shortly after a wisdom tooth operation. Dick received a home delivery of opioids from a woman wearing a Christian Ichthys necklace. The symbol emitted a pink beam of light which was the catalyst for months of visionary experiences, including Dicks belief that his mind had been invaded by a benign but separate consciousness. The period of PKD's visions began in February or March of 1974, and continued for anywhere between two and 12 months. In What if Our World is Their Heaven, Dick asserts that this separate consciousness was present for one year. From February 1974 to February 1975 (p. 149). Fine condition [10914, Hyraxia Books].

Unbound. Etat : Fine. Edition. Fullerton(?), California, No Publisher, 1975. . Unbound. A three-page (3pp) typed letter signed. A fantastic letter. Dated February 16th 1975. The letter is signed by PKD with nine amendments in the author's hand. Addressed to Claudia Bush. Bush commenced her dialogue with PKD whilst writing her thesis on him for her MA at Idaho State University. The thesis was published as "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick." Much of the Bush correspondence is held in the Willis E. McNelly collection at California State University Fullerton; they are scarce in commerce. This letter is written in the aftermath of his VALIS visions of 1974, which happened shortly after a wisdom tooth operation. Dick received a home delivery of opioids from a woman wearing a Christian Ichthys necklace. The symbol emitted a pink beam of light which was the catalyst for months of visionary experiences, including Dicks belief that his mind had been invaded by a benign but separate consciousness. The period of PKD's visions began in February or March of 1974, and continued for anywhere between two and 12 months. In What if Our World is Their Heaven, Dick asserts that this separate consciousness was present for one year. From February 1974 to February 1975 (p. 149). The present letter commences with a page of PKD warning Bush not to be too free with her ideas, for fear of plagiarism; having been the victim himself, with a Ubik adaptation. The letter continues with a discussion of a nine page treatment for a novel PKD was working on called To Scare the Dead, which he sends to Bush (not included in this offering). The letter than meanders, in PKD's usual style, to a discussion of Jesus as Zeus as Zagreus followed by a short discussion of the transition from paganism to Christianity. The letter gets interesting further still with a discussion of the mysterious word 'Albemuth' (later appearing in the title of one of his works). Dick claims the word came to him in a dream, and then continues to deconstruct the word itself attributing an interpretation, meaning and even the cryptology of the world. A fascinating insight into PKD's mind. Small liquid stain to the edges, but it doesn't detract. [11094, Hyraxia Books]. Signed by Author(s).

Unbound. Etat : Fine. Edition. Fullerton(?), California, No Publisher, 1975. . Unbound. A three-page (3pp) typed letter signed. A fantastic letter. Dated July 24th 1974. The letter is signed by PKD with six corrections and a postscript all in the author's hand. Addressed to Claudia Bush. Bush commenced her dialogue with PKD whilst writing her thesis on him for her MA at Idaho State University. The thesis was published as "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick." Much of the Bush correspondence is held in the Willis E. McNelly collection at California State University Fullerton; they are scarce in commerce. This letter is written in the aftermath of his VALIS visions of 1974, which happened shortly after a wisdom tooth operation. Dick received a home delivery of opioids from a woman wearing a Christian Ichthys necklace. The symbol emitted a pink beam of light which was the catalyst for months of visionary experiences, including Dicks belief that his mind had been invaded by a benign but separate consciousness. The period of PKD's visions began in February or March of 1974, and continued for anywhere between two and 12 months. In What if Our World is Their Heaven, Dick asserts that this separate consciousness was present for one year. From February 1974 to February 1975 (p. 149). The present letter discusses the dream PKD had, recounted in vivid detail, regarding the fork and spaghetti / trident and yarn. After recounting the events PKD interprets it using Greek Mythology. The thread PKD attributes to Ariadne, which ties into the next section regarding a letter from Philip Jose Farmer that arrives the subsequent morning ("The morning after I had this dream." with PKD having underlined the word after) wherein Farmer is suggesting a meta-physicial way the PKD can retrieve his daughter from his ex-wife, "You're in the labyrinth, but your Ariadne's thread is your imagination (Farmer)." The letter continues to talk about his earlier dream regarding double-domed men with golden skin, and in particular a cyclops figure (again tying into the Greeks), about whom he concludes only appeared to him in a dream, not reality (phew). PKD then goes on to recount how he wondered if these people in his dream were from outer space, but, alas, concludes they are merely ancient Greeks. The letter then moves onto PKD's analysis of a couplet from the previous dream "you have to put your slippers on / To walk toward the dream." PKD assigns this to not being scared, which is the later theme of the letter, and quite sweet. We then wind down the letter with another dream recounting, this time of Athena, Medusa or Demeter. All in all a fascinating insight into PKD's mind and psyche at the time following the VALIS encounter. A wonderful letter. [11073, Hyraxia Books]. Signed by Author(s).

Unbound. Etat : Fine. Edition. Fullerton(?), California, No Publisher, 1975. . Unbound. A two-page (2pp) typed letter signed. Dated February 12th 1975. The letter is signed by PKD with three minor corrections. Addressed to Claudia Bush. Bush commenced her dialogue with PKD whilst writing her thesis on him for her MA at Idaho State University. The thesis was published as "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick." Much of the Bush correspondence is held in the Willis E. McNelly collection at California State University Fullerton; they are scarce in commerce. This letter is written in the aftermath of his VALIS visions of 1974, which happened shortly after a wisdom tooth operation. Dick received a home delivery of opioids from a woman wearing a Christian Ichthys necklace. The symbol emitted a pink beam of light which was the catalyst for months of visionary experiences, including Dicks belief that his mind had been invaded by a benign but separate consciousness. The period of PKD's visions began in February or March of 1974, and continued for anywhere between two and 12 months. In What if Our World is Their Heaven, Dick asserts that this separate consciousness was present for one year. From February 1974 to February 1975 (p. 149). The present letter discusses a number of things with the first page being primarily about PKD's daughter Isa and his ex-wife Nancy. PKD is recounting to Bush how his attorney has been trying to locate Nancy and Isa but has been unable to, detailing both Nancy's mental health issues and PKDs, Nancy and Isa's time in a 'the Jesus commune', and the custody of Isa. "there is little in the world to induce immediate fear and then a continual descent into dread than to have your attorney say excitedly in your ear, "She's disappeared! She's gone!." The letter then continues with PKD telling Bush that the attorney had just called noting that Isa had been located but that she isn't with Nancy, but with Nancy's sister Ann; from whom PKD feels he would be taking Isa should he get custody. The final paragraph sees PKD discussing his 'metaphysic', the primary reason for Bush's interest. In here we find PKD talking about his most well-known conceit; the nature of reality; in this case the conjunction of lineal/vertical time and rotary/orthoginal time. With this notion explaining his March vision. A further quote: "under the duress of her mental illness Nancy might one day pour gasoline on Isa and set her afire." An interesting insight into Nancy (and PKD's) mental health, but also his position as father to Isa. Fine, with a little tanning. [11018, Hyraxia Books].

A typed letter signed from Dick to Claudia Bush, a university student who was writing a thesis on Dick's novels, with eight brief authorial manuscript corrections. Dick delves into the particulars of his VALIS visions and draws parallels between his own experiences and that of his friend James Pike, a controversial Episcopal bishop and the inspiration for Bishop Archer in Dick's The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982). Pike was the fifth bishop of California. He was an early proponent of the ordination of woman and racial desegregation within mainline churches. After the suicide of his son in 1966, Pike became a believer in spiritualism and psychic phenomena. In this letter, Dick remarks with pride that a bookseller compared his experiences to those of Pike and posits that he and Pike share a psychic connection: "all these ideas, all this classical information, was some how connected with Jim, somehow came from him". This letter is written in the aftermath of Dick's VALIS visions of 1974, which happened shortly after a wisdom tooth operation. Dick received a home delivery of opioids from a woman wearing a Christian Ichthys necklace. The symbol emitted a pink beam of light which was the catalyst for months of visionary experiences, including Dick's belief that his mind had been invaded by a benign but separate consciousness. The period of PKD's visions began in February or March of 1974, and continued for anywhere between two and 12 months. Claudia Bush was a student at Idaho State University who was working on her thesis, "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick". She and Dick maintained an extensive and rich correspondence. This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1991). Three leaves (280 x 216 mm) typed on side only. Fine.

A typed letter signed from Dick to MA student Claudia Krenz Bush, with nine corrections in his hand. This is a dense letter in which Dick tackles theories of reality and time, referring to Plato, Parmenides, Aristotle, Robert E. Ornstein, Emanuel Kant, Nikolai Kozyrev, and Christ. Dick dives straight in with a discussion whether time is linear or cyclic. Cyclic time would mean that "when the new crop of corn or wheat appears, it is not a new crop, it is the same crop. we know that the ancient and primitive cultures believed this". The modern world has substituted this for linear time, which Dick thinks is a mistake. "We are like children watching a merry-go-round and imagining that every single horse is a totally new horse, rather than the same ones repeating themselves. If one takes a merry-go-round as paradigm for the universe, then what is our mental age as we see only lineal time? And not the eternal repetitions?". He allows that our lifespans are too short for us to see the cyclic nature of the merry-go-round: we are "jerked away" before we can see the repetitions. But this, he notes, is "precisely how the miracle of transubstantiation takes place: it joins us by piercing through our lineal time to the unchanging moment of the Last Supper". Using psychologist Robert E. Ornstein's research on the different hemispheres of the brain as a touchstone, Dick locates our "time-space sense" or capacity to "pierce to the heart of things" in the right hemisphere of the brain, as "the left alone certainly knows only lineal time". He points to Kant's metaphysics as a symptom of how "we have gone too far into 'inner space' as the realm where everything takes place" and argues strenuously that we have developed two brain hemispheres, each of which is a separate mind, in order to perceive both lineal and cyclic time. We have, Dick argues, evolved to see only lineal time because it is more useful for our quotidian experience of reality. However, he sees no reason to abandon one in favour of the other. "Why not hold both? Have your cake and eat it too? Where does it say you can't? Is the universe limited to just so many fundamental constituents and that's it?". This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1993). Three leaves (280 x 216 mm), typed one side only. Faint stains to edges, else well-preserved.

A typed letter signed from Dick to MA student Claudia Krenz Bush, with three minor manuscript corrections by Dick. In this letter, Dick is anxious and frustrated by his ongoing custody battle with his ex-wife Nancy, who has disappeared with their daughter, Isa. It is a very intimate letter, touching only briefly on what Dick calls his "metaphysic" and the nature of reality. Dick promises to "do what I can to inform you as to the True & Authentic Nature of the Universe, but at this time all I feel is the cold and darkening clouds, the gradual numbing inside me". Nancy was mentally unstable and could be volatile, so her disappearance with Isa scared Dick, though it strengthened his custody case: "There is little in the world to induce immediate fear and then a continual descent into dread than to have your attorney say excitedly in your ear, 'She's disappeared! She's gone!'" There is a break in the letter, and Dick returns later the same day to report that Isa has been found safe with Nancy's sister Ann, whom Dick admits is better suited to raise his daughter than either Nancy or himself. Slightly buoyed, Dick is able to turn to his and Claudia's most frequent topic of correspondence: his VALIS visions and the nature of reality. "'What is reality?' is falsely asked, and should go: 'What are reality?' I believe it consists of two mirror opposites." This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1991). Two leaves (280 x 216 mm), typed one side only. Mildly toned with faint stains to edges; near-fine.

A typed letter signed from Dick, with nine manuscript corrections, to MA student Claudia Krenz Bush, who was writing her thesis on Dick, published as "The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K. Dick". In this letter, Dick is full of praise for Claudia's writing ("your letter to me is so well written that I think I will apply for a grant to write a thesis on your letters"), warns her repeatedly against unscrupulous academics ("they will rip you off baby, I mean it. They will fucking steal your insights and call them their own"), and skirts around flirtation: "When you don't have anything marketable yet, they're not interested; but you have, Claudia (I refer, ahem, to your writing)". He extols her writing and encourages her to continue: "Claudia, you should do a novel in the first person, like Henry Miller or Celine; it'd cause Western Civilization to cash in on the spot, and we'd all get off on that, by golly. If I tell you that in a number of ways I genuinely do regard you as a superb writer, you must believe me, and I would know, because I can tell good prose, funny and acute prose, original prose, right-on prose, and, best of all, the authentic prose of our people. We do have a prose, we Americans. Heller has it, Saul Bellow has it - you do too, Claudia. you'll see that I came close to having it, close enough to know it when someone else has it". He mentions draft notes for a "very personal" novel which "will show how really wild, how REALLY WILD my inner life is" and ends the letter with a complicated cryptographic decoding of the word "Albemuth", revealed to him in a dream, and later used in the title to his novel Radio Free Albemuth (1985). This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1993). Three leaves (280 x 216 mm), typed one side only. Stains to edges, else well-preserved.

A typed letter signed from Dick to MA student Claudia Krenz Bush, with six manuscript corrections and a handwritten postscript by Dick. Dick recounts three separate dreams and unravels their meanings. The first dream involves a ball of yarn and a trident - briefly appearing under the guise of a pile of spaghetti and a fork - which Dick must untangle. He interprets the dream through the lens of Greek mythology, suggesting that the thread may belong to Arachne or Ariadne. His second dream is of intimidating "doubledomed golden skinned men" with cyclops eyes. These men had appeared to Dick before, and he had hoped they may be aliens. Here, he realizes that they are human. "So acute terror gave way to keen disappointment. [handwritten:] (the story of my life)". Dick concludes they are Ancient Greeks who are "curing & guiding & improving" him and, despite his disappointment, feels confident that they have his best interests at heart. He concludes with a deep analysis of a couplet which appeared in the first dream, "you have to put your slippers on / to walk toward the Dawn". He takes it to be a message of encouragement, instructing him to abandon fear. He closes with a moving description of a final dream, a "very short odd dream; a woman, so close to me that she blended into me momentarily, was weeping unconscionably". This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1991). Three leaves (280 x 216 mm), typed one side only. Fine.