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  • 24/06/2025
Philip K. Dick é considerado por muitos os maiores escritores de ficção científica do mundo de todos os tempos. Como sofredor da doença mental, ele tinha a capacidade de transformar suas alucinações sobre o universo em uma extraordinária carreira de escritor.

Durante sua vida, Dick produziu uma quantidade surpreendente de romances e contos vencedores de prêmios, que foram traduzidos para mais de 25 idiomas. Três de seus trabalhos literários foram transformados em filmes de sucesso de bilheteria: Blade Runner, Minority Report e Total Recall.

Vários anos antes de sua morte, Philip começou a ter experiências místicas que afetaram sua vida cotidiana. Como resultado, ele começou a se perguntar se o que ele imaginara por suas histórias era real e se a vida era apenas uma ilusão ou a criação da subjetividade de cada pessoa.

Este programa aprofundado explora Philip K. Dick's World, um universo cheio de mistérios e intrigas.

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00:00In March 1974, Philip Kindred Dick, a science fiction writer,
00:18went through a series of extrasensory experiences that remain unexplained to this day.
00:24The subject himself later referred to these events as an encounter with God
00:29and used it as a storyline for some of his novels.
00:33You have been entrusted to determine the true nature of these events.
00:38At present day, the writings of Philip K. Dick have reached considerable levels of popularity
00:44for what was considered a cult writer,
00:46and many of his stories have been adapted to films such as Blade Runner,
00:50Total Recall, and Minority Report.
00:54Gentlemen, the future circulation of his work will be based on the results
00:58of your investigation.
01:00We will start at the beginning.
01:02The End
01:04Amém.
01:34It's OK.
01:35It's OK.
01:36It's OK.
01:37The subject of this speech is a topic which has been discovered recently and which may
01:49not exist at all.
01:50I may be talking about something that does not exist.
01:54Therefore I'm free to say everything or nothing.
01:57He was born in 1928, which was really in the middle of not quite the end of the big depression
02:08in this country.
02:09So his mother was poor, lucky to have a job.
02:14And of course the death of the little girl certainly had a tremendous effect on Dorothy too.
02:21They had been born about two months early, and they were both very small.
02:28And at the time Phil was one of the smallest premature babies to survive, but his sister
02:35was even smaller and she simply did not make it.
02:39He thought that she should have lived and he died.
02:45He thought that he was living at her expense.
02:49Dorothy couldn't afford very much milk for them and Phil was always so hungry that she
02:56gave him more than she gave to Phil's sister.
03:00So Phil felt in some ways that it was his fault that his sister died.
03:05And at the same time he developed a personality in his mind about how she would be if she had
03:13lived.
03:14And into that personality he injected all sorts of things from what we'd called the feminine
03:19side of his personality.
03:21He actually drew her picture several times for me, but the pictures, they looked a lot like
03:27him.
03:28It was like him on a diet.
03:29He felt a connection with what might have been and since a lot of his writing has to do with
03:41the nature of reality, I think that had a very strong effect on it, you know, what might have
03:46been.
03:47The changing information which we experience as world is an unfolding narrative.
03:52It tells about the death of a woman.
03:56This woman who died long ago was one of the primordial twins.
04:01The purpose of the narrative is the recollection of her and of her death.
04:06The mind does not wish to forget her.
04:10I can see him in my mind's eye.
04:15I can see him as he was then, sick quite a lot of the time.
04:19He was a sickly boy.
04:21We went to grade school together at Hillside School in Berkeley.
04:26I wasn't aware of any mental problems, but I was aware that he was quite a strange boy,
04:32and I liked that.
04:37He lived with his mother, Dick's were divorced.
04:42Father lived in San Mateo, and Mrs. Dick, I don't think I ever saw her fully clothed
04:50and vertical.
04:52She was always resting in bed early in the evening.
04:56I only remember seeing his mother in the kitchen once and she was making a melted cheese sandwich
05:02and to think of it, I never saw him eat anything, and that's strange because, you know, kids
05:07that age are eating all the time and drinking all the time, and then I saw her feed the
05:12cat sometimes, but never got into a good conversation with her.
05:25In the early 1930s, young Philip and his mother Dorothy settled in Berkeley, California.
05:31It is said that his mother encouraged Philip's early interest for literature, but it is also
05:36undeniable that the intellectual environment of the city of Berkeley had an impact in the
05:40child's development.
05:43I know that Philip was writing in high school, and that he wrote short stories, and early on,
05:53he had a little story published in the local newspaper which had a column for kids' stories.
06:00I have never seen that story.
06:02I would love to see it.
06:05I don't know anything about it except it was a science fiction-y story.
06:10He started having a lot of anxiety attacks going to high school, sweats, palpitations,
06:15shortness of breath.
06:16They considered it anxiety.
06:18Now we probably would think more of panic disorder, panic attacks, and those are different.
06:22He started to write science fiction to disassociate.
06:25That was his word, to escape.
06:29The question of when Phil and I discovered fantasy, I think we first discovered it in comic
06:37books.
06:38There's a classic.
06:43We were all comic book collectors, and we went quite quickly from comic books to pulp magazines.
06:57At that time, there were a great many cheap fiction magazines.
07:02And Phil and I were both collectors.
07:06Oh, we were both nerds.
07:08We were both sort of like classical music so much.
07:12And he had this great advantage of living in a strange arrangement with his mother.
07:16His mother lived upstairs, and the downstairs, the living room, with a huge magnavox.
07:23And we had that to ourselves every afternoon and into the night where we could listen to Beethoven,
07:29Brahms.
07:30When Philip was in high school, he got his first regular job at University Radio.
07:37University Radio, at that time, was strictly radios.
07:40And then, as time went on, they sold television sets, too.
07:45The owner of University Radio also owned Art Music.
07:50The other store that Herb Hollis owned was closer to the campus, the university campus,
07:57and was all records.
08:02And since Philip was mostly interested in the music, after his high school days,
08:09he and Hollis had a good relationship, almost a father-son relationship.
08:15And Philip was moved up to Art Music, where he knew what he was talking about
08:21and was interested in what he was doing, selling the music.
08:25And then when he really blossomed out and got to know people,
08:29when he started working at the record store,
08:31it just taught him how to deal with people.
08:33I always had the feeling he must be working in the basement,
08:36because he was so afraid of other people.
08:38But no, he was a good salesman. He liked people.
08:41He could pick up girls there.
08:43You know, he was married once before me.
08:47It lasted just a few months.
08:50Oh, he told me that story that was the first girl he slept with,
08:52and he thought he had her pregnant, and that's why he got married.
08:55But I didn't believe that, because it sounded, you know,
08:57too good to be true as a story.
09:00His story about why that marriage broke up was that his wife, Jeanette,
09:06who nobody's been able to trace since.
09:10I have no idea if she's still alive or nobody ever heard of her after that in his circle.
09:15The story was that Jeanette had a brother who came to visit the apartment,
09:21and Philip had a huge record collection, and Jeanette's brother had objections to that,
09:31and he didn't think a real man should be that hung up on music,
09:38and that Philip felt that the collection was actually threatened, physically threatened,
09:44and that that's why they broke up.
09:46Now, you know, I doubt that that was really the whole story, but that's the story he told.
09:51That's the story he told.