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VALIS

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VALISVast Active Living Intelligence System (Philip K. Dick)


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Throughout her study, Valis examines essays on cursileria written by Spaniards over the course of more than a century and literary works that show the various authors' understanding of cursileria.
In part, the belief that these parochial values of the superpower are indeed universal is "confirmed" by the victims, the Valis of the world, when they confess their "sin" of having once worshiped false gods (like Communism) and, in return, receive absolution (and material aid).
Dick's Valis, which Kevin describes as a "prophetic techno-paranoid book about a guy who goes insane by having a pink light beamed at his forehead containing all this information about history, God, the creation of the world.
 
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