How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Their remarks, always witty, always new, weren't rehearsed. Amanda's hair glowed, her eyes glinted, her teeth shone; she never ran down, never became tired, never found herself at a loss as to a clever retort to Buster's bang-bang string of quips, jokes, and sharp observations. (7.21)
Looks like the empathy box isn't the only jab Dick makes at TV. Television is basically a box we put in our living room that pumps in different realities once every hour. Even our so-called reality TV is fabricated to the point that we can safely call it a different reality all together. (Unless you're prone to being locked in a house/ on an island/ in a singing competition with ten other people between the ages of 18 and 24 who all have visible abs and perfect teeth. Call us?)
Quote #5
[Garland] paused, then said, "We all came here together on the same ship from Mars. Not Resch; he stayed behind another week, receiving the synthetic memory system." He was silent then. (11.11)
Imagine living in a world where you could never tell if your memories were real or implanted, if your reality was real or not. Then again, if your memories are tampered with, would you still be you? Or would you be the you that is not, in fact, you? Huh…?
Quote #6
"Anyhow, there's a fortune to be made in smuggling pre-colonial fiction, the old magazines and books and films, to Mars. Nothing is as exciting. To read about cities and huge industrial enterprises, and really successful colonization. You can imagine what it might have been like. What Mars ought to be like. Canals." (13.51)
We love an author who can poke a little fun at his genre. On the one hand, science fiction has become reality as citizens now live on extraterrestrial planets. On the other, those science fiction stories are still way better than the way things turned out. No matter how far we advance, science fiction is still fiction. (Although, we're pretty sure smartphones are more awesome than anyone could possibly have imagined.)