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From: "William H. Ansley" <wansley@warwick.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v028.n066 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:24:34 Patri10629@aol.com <Patrick O'Leary> wrote: >And let me be frank. No, really frank. Hi, Frank. I don't know from modernism and while I have found this discussion (mostly) interesting so far I have been content to let it wash over me without participating. But I, too, want to put in a word for Philip K. Dick. He certainly was a hack, but he was a great writer, too. One of the things that sets him apart for me is that although his protagonists are almost always people who would be labeled "losers" (at least in American society) it is obvious that Dick deeply *cares* about these people and he makes you care, too. The only trace of PKD I have ever found in Wolfe (and it may be coincidental, although at least one other person in this group has commented on it) is in _There Are Doors_. The last few paragraphs, in particular, have always evoked PKD's SF to me. Has anyone here ever read any of PKD's nonSF? I have always meant to, but never gotten around to it. William Ansley *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/