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Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick

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bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> writes:
>On 11/2/26 15:41, Don wrote:
>> Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> On 02/11/2026 10:56, bliss wrote:
>>> snip
>>>>
>>>>      But I never passed up the chance to read Philip K. Dick
>>>> stories in my youth. That he was on drugs was perhaps the least
>>>> strange bit of information I learned after he left us without
>>>> more PKD.
>>>
>>> I now remember the films instead of the most famous books read decades
>>> ago but do remember A Scanner Darkly with amazement. More recently read
>>> was the less popular but an enjoyable read for me, Flow My Tears, The
>>> Policeman Said, but my favourites of his perhaps lesser works, are
>>> Martian Time-Slip, and The World Jones Made.
>>> Without the drugs, he would not have written such convoluted and
>>> brilliant stories.
>> 
>> James, HIGH TOWER's Wyoming and Colorado settings interest me more than
>> its nod to the nonstop Nazi narrative found in bygone Science Fiction.
>> Frank Frink's fraud is a little on the nose.
>> 
>> bliss, in regards to your nursing career, anyone who aspires to be a
>> medical genius ought to spend time with ENCYCLOPEDIA & DICTIONARY of
>> MEDICINE, NURSING, & ALLIED HEALTH, edited by Marie T O'Toole, EdD, RN,
>> FAAN. One of its many contributors used to post here.
>
>	I quit nursing many years ago and no longer have the stamina
>to have anything to do with more than the most casual items.
>You may have missed my statement that I am 89 yoa. My nursing
>career was over 50 years ago.

I recently received a copy of "The People's Common Sense Medical
Advisor, in Plain English" (c) 1889 (Twentieth Edition) which belonged to my
great-grandparents.

It is illustrative of the progress made in medicine over the last
century and a half.  It is no wonder that people were dying right
and left in the 19th century if they were following the recommendations
in that book.

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(Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2026-11-01 12:24 +0000
  Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-11-01 16:00 -0500
    Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-11-01 13:56 -0800
      Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-11-01 18:40 -0500
        Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-11-01 16:21 -0800
          Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-11-02 09:10 -0500
            Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-11-02 15:03 -0500
              Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-11-03 10:39 -0500
      Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-11-02 15:44 +1300
        Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-11-02 15:22 -0500
          Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-11-07 17:37 +1300
            Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-11-07 09:34 -0500
              Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-11-10 17:09 +1300
        Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick Don <g@crcomp.net> - 2026-11-02 23:41 +0000
          Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-11-02 16:05 -0800
            Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-03 15:27 +0000
    Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2026-11-02 01:31 +0000
      Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-11-02 15:18 -0500

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