Sunday, July 03, 2005





"As living information, the plasmate travels up the optic nerve of a human to the pineal body. It uses the human brain as a female host in which to replicate itself into its active form. This is an interspecies symbiosis. The Hermetic alchemists knew of it in theory from ancient texts, but could not duplicate it, since they could not locate the dormant, buried plasmate. Bruno suspected that the plasmate had been destroyed by the Empire; for hinting at this he was burned. 'The Empire never ended.'"

(Excerpted from Philip K. Dick's "Exegesis.")

1 comments:

W.M. Bear said...

Exegesis or X a Jesus?

The Empire never ended.

I haven't read Dick for a long time and never came close to reading the entire Dick corpus or opus or whatever. But I do recall that phrase "The Empire never ended" from, I think one of his other novels. I also seem to recall that he repeats this phrase from time to time like a kind of mantra. The "Empire" seems to refer to the Roman Empire but this was never totally clear to me.