As histórias de Philip K. Dick continuam a inspirar cineastas, escritores, tecnófilos e filósofos. E, nos últimos dez anos de sua vida, ele habitou uma realidade mais estranha do que a ficção que criou.
01:30One mystery in the life of Philip K. Dick that still hovers around is the break-in in 1971.
01:49And there are many different stories, none of which really make sense about that break-in.
01:56I first learned about it when he phoned me in a panic and said that somebody had blown his safe and made off with very precious personal items.
02:07Maybe drugs, maybe tax records, or, um, but it's a little unknown, but apparently he came home one day and found that the safe had been blown up.
02:18And, um, I think this is kind of crazy, but he called the cops and got the police involved in this, which is really, you know, pretty amusing because of all the drug activity that was in the house and his paranoia of the authorities and all the stuff that, I mean, I think it's a real sign of a, you know, a little bit of a split personality that he would bring the police into this issue.
02:39So, Phil, in talking to me, and as quoted in my book, says the police thought maybe he did it himself.
02:48And Phil was, was charmed by that idea.
03:00It, it made for good telling.
03:02And then being Phil K. Dick, he could ask himself, well, is it possible I did it myself and I forgot, you know?
03:12Let's see, what would my motivation have been?
03:14And so forth and so on.
03:15I mean, as, as a novelist, he could take off from anywhere and go somewhere unexpected with it.
03:21I think it's fascinating to contemplate, did he, you know, engineer his own break-in, you know?
03:27To me, that's the most entertaining of all the options and he concocted it himself, um, sort of like in a scanner darkly, you know?
03:35You're busting yourself and you don't even realize it.
03:38But, um, I think it is possible that there was either some sort of marine drug-related aspect to it or that there might have been a political motive and, you know, could have been part of COINTELPRO.
03:53It's a little far-fetched, he wasn't that directly involved politically, um, with things, but the more that comes out about that era and even the fifties, um, the FBI just kept an eye on a lot of people.
