Tao Te Ching
Ubik
Time magazine chose Ubik as one of the 100 greatest novels since 1923 and in the review called it "a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you'll never be sure you've woken up from.” Filled with reality-shifting experiences defying explanation, psychic intrusions, half-lives, "inertials" protecting privacy, and time travel; Ubik personifies a Gnosti -style, metaphor for an unnameable, undefinable God. It graphically demonstrates how we can't be sure of anything and how nothing is ever as it seems. At the same time though, it helps unravel our deepest psychological and institutional confusions. Full of koan-like, dilemma-filled puzzles, Ubik quickly disrupts our reality-assumptions, questions the culturally-accepted boundaries between life and death, and makes a strong case for believing that everything we think we know is wrong—all while weaving an intriguing, hallucinatory mystery story.
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Quotes from Ubik
“'I'll sue you,' the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, 'I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.'”
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“He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside”
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“Noticing her body made him feel like a low-class wind-up toy.”
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“The definition of your self-system lacks authentic boundaries. You've erected a precarious structure of personality on unconscious factors over which you have no control.”
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“Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it.”
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