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If a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters for a million years will eventually produce Shakespeare, one monkey at one typewriter for forty years will eventually come up with "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale."

That's pretty much where I am with Asimov and PKD - they wrote so goddamn much that one or two of their stories will be "Twilight" or "The Bicentennial Man." The rest of it is Dr. Bloodmoney.

I've started maybe four PKD novels. I've finished two. Some day I'll do High Castle but fuck a duck, what I've read is not encouraging. It seemed like half of Androids was fuckin' Mercerism... and I just don't give a shit. I know Kilgore Trout was supposed to be Theodore Sturgeon, but I've always imagined him as Philip K. Dick.