![]() ![]() Bishop Archer describes the book's central quandary when he says: "My point," Tim said, "is that if the Logia predate Jesus by two hundred years, then the Gospels are suspect, we have no evidence that Jesus was God, very God, God incarnate, and therefore the basis of our religion is gone. For me, the structural and style differences in these books allowed PKD creative room to explore his big religious themes: God, faith, salvation, love, fate, compassion, the search for identity, knowledge, etc, from as many sides and angles as possible. I love that each of his three Valis/God/Gnostic books: Valis, The Divine Invasion, Transmigration of Timothy Archer are so different. He wanted to yank the reader left, and then yank the reader right, then trip the reader, so we can see what it is like to live in his head as he is trying to make sense of his own mortality and faith. ![]() ![]() I think part of it was Dick set the reader up. I'm not sure if it was a dissatisfaction with it not living up to my expectation(s), or having too much of the novel actually exist there AND me just wanting more. ![]() Ultimately, however, I couldn't quite swallow the whole book (oh me of little faith). I'm willing to give PKD a lot of credit for attempting, so late in his life, a 'mainstream novel'. Transmigration of Timothy Archer was brilliant in parts, very engaging, but there were also pieces that just didn't quite fit. I'm going to have to chew over this one a bit more. No single thing abides, except mushrooms & memory ![]()
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