Jigsaw falling into place
While talking to a friend on Gmail chat tonight, I finally articulated one of the things I love about Philip K. Dick's work:
me: [The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is] maybe the height of his narrative didacticism, but kind of weirdly powerful as a result
i mean, like half of the book is the internal monologues of characters as they realise just how existentially fucked they are now, but it gives the whole thing this kind of weird pulp gravitas
there's showing, but there's also a lot of telling, if you get what i mean
It's weird, because it's a storytelling mode that goes against a lot of common sense and that I should hate, but it's actually one of my favourite things about The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubk, VALIS, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said et al.
me: [The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is] maybe the height of his narrative didacticism, but kind of weirdly powerful as a result
i mean, like half of the book is the internal monologues of characters as they realise just how existentially fucked they are now, but it gives the whole thing this kind of weird pulp gravitas
there's showing, but there's also a lot of telling, if you get what i mean
It's weird, because it's a storytelling mode that goes against a lot of common sense and that I should hate, but it's actually one of my favourite things about The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubk, VALIS, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said et al.
