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Phil in the Marketplace
PHILIP K. DICK
Here's the writer of Ubik, stopping in at Art Music on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, a store selling sheet music and records and phonographs, a store where until recently he was a mere but happy clerk. Now he is something else, something less mere, something less simply happy. He enters the store, gives a genial wave to his old colleagues, the fellows still stuck in retail, and flips a glossy new paperback onto the floor as if ditching it at a security checkpoint before being frisked. He sallies past the book and the clerks, toward the back, toward the downstairs where the stoic and holy repairmen tinker at busted electronics."Hey, Phil, what are you doing?""Just though...See the full content of this document
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