bink wrote:

The article linked suggests PKD's letters to the FBI were "flights of fancy," but... if I have ever been in a similar mental state as Dick, which is freaked out on drugs to the point that paranoia becomes an almost physical force, then he was as afraid of the authorities as I was, and was either trying to throw them off track or, by way of obsequiousness, endear himself to them. However, this revelation does seem to put all PKD's bunk about "taking down Nixon" with the help of VALIS to be exceptionally duplicit. I imagine he could hold simultaneous contradictory beliefs quite easily.