Re: [*FSFFU*] Quotation Question

From: Bill Sansbury (grok@IDT.NET)
Date: Tue Nov 11 1997 - 17:05:04 PST


That would be me, and most of you are correct, Philip K. Dick of the
shifting realities fame. He has been one of my all time favorite authors
for over twenty years now.
Bill

At 08:19 PM 11/11/1997 -0500, you wrote:
>At 03:26 PM 11/11/97 -0800, you wrote:
>> "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of
>>words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people
>>who must use the words."
>> PKD
>>
>>
>>This is a signature of someone on this list - I can't remember who. Who
>>is PKD?
>>
>>
>My venture is that PKD is Philip Kindred Dick (I just translated an article
>on him for _Extrapolations_, so I'm freshly overflowing with new
>readings--and it certainly sounds like something he would say). But
>certainly, Humpty Dumpty came up with it first. ;)
>
>Heather
>=)
>
>
>hmaclean@kent.edu
>http://www.personal.kent.edu/~hmaclean
>
>
 "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of
words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people
who must use the words."
                               PKD
grok@idt.net http://idt.net/~grok/
bsans@wam.umd.edu http://www.wam.umd.edu/~bsans



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