We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.
Philip K. DickAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: March 2, 1928
- Died: March 2, 1982
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