Typed letter signed to Claudia Bush.
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[California:] 24 July, 1974. Gods, Greeks, and "goldskinned men" A typed letter signed from Dick to MA student Claudia Krenz Bush, with six manuscript corrections and a handwritten postscript by Dick. Dick recounts three separate dreams and unravels their meanings. The first dream involves a ball of yarn and a trident - briefly appearing under the guise of a pile of spaghetti and a fork - which Dick must untangle. He interprets the dream through the lens of Greek mythology, suggesting that the thread may belong to Arachne or Ariadne. His second dream is of intimidating "doubledomed golden skinned men" with cyclops eyes. These men had appeared to Dick before, and he had hoped they may be aliens. Here, he realizes that they are human. "So acute terror gave way to keen disappointment. [handwritten:] (the story of my life)". Dick concludes they are Ancient Greeks who are "curing & guiding & improving" him and, despite his disappointment, feels confident that they have his best interests at heart. He concludes with a deep analysis of a couplet which appeared in the first dream, "you have to put your slippers on / to walk toward the Dawn". He takes it to be a message of encouragement, instructing him to abandon fear. He closes with a moving description of a final dream, a "very short odd dream; a woman, so close to me that she blended into me momentarily, was weeping unconscionably". This letter is published in The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1991). Three leaves (280 x 216
- Year: 1974
- Binding: unknown
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