'when omac is born the truth shall be known'

sean has been in touch;

'Couldn't resist attaching a double page spread from 70ies jack kirby comic  omac - a space satellite that downloads information directly into a human brain on earth via laser beam (a fucking pink laser beam at that!). Can't believe I hadn't noticed before that brother eye is jack kirby's version of valis ( jack must have been contacted  too - after all, it doesn't make sense valis would only contact one human. That would explain the change in his work when he "went cosmic"; the sheer volume of pages, and the increased abstraction that matches pkd's description of the patterned geometric hallucinations, obsessively reworked over and over....it all fits. And of course, omac was produced in 1974).

And Is it my imagination, or does professor forest - the inventor of brother eye in omac - look like josef stalin (see attached pic in page header)?
Didn't philip k. dick suspect that valis may actually have been a soviet mind control experiment? We wonder if this means that kirby theorized in a similar direction....
(Although we might note forest is a benign figure.... kirby always comes across as an anticapitalist)'

this idea is supported by the writer  Christopher Knowles “something very, very powerful hit [Kirby] around ’65 or ’66, and transformed him from an already imaginative man into a psychedelic shaman disguised as a freelance pencil pusher”  as quoted in Jeffrey J. Kripal’s 'Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal', University of Chicago Press, p.154. (http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-hand-of-fire-roundtable-part-2/)

Must have missed that bit in Divine Invasions (I skimmed a fair bit of it)
You're right about pkd's female characters... in fact, I'd go a bit further and say its more than the resentment of the needy; he really doesn't like wimmin. Donna in scanner darkly or alys in flow my tears are particularly unpleasant examples of this.'

horsemouth is typing this in the corridor a) to avoid mind control rays and b) because the internet connection is better (if that is indeed a different thing).

sunday horsemouth went out for a wander round the eastend of history with max and myk (and sundry italians, americans, britishers) this was after wandering back the long way round through the eastend. at the  quadrivium where john williams (the wapping vampire) was allegedly buried - one literary reaction to his crimes was thomas de quincey's on murder considered as one of the fine arts. horsemouth hastily chose a passage and recited the following. 

'soon after the secret was explained: in more than a figurative sense "the murder was out." For in came the London morning papers, by which it appeared that, but three days before, a murder the most superb of the century by many degrees had occurred in the heart of London. I need hardly say that this was the great exterminating chef-d'oeuvre of Williams at Mr. Marr's, No. 29 Ratcliffe Highway. That was the début of the artist; at least for anything the public knew. What occurred at Mr. Williamson's twelve nights afterwards — the second work turned out from the same chisel — some people pronounced even superior.'