They seek him here, they seek him there ... that damned elusive duct tape bandit
Boing Boing is a superb website devoted to uncovering strange facts and theories about our planet. Recent entries include a report on a bank robber who chose to disguise himself by covering his face in duct tape; a truly alarming and extremely amusing catalogue of Fox News' ability to turn almost any report into an anti-liberal diatribe; the story of a bloke who has built a steam powered monocycle; and my own personal favourite, a link to a recent New Yorker feature about sci-fi writer Phillip K Dick.
Adam Gopnik, himself a writer of fantastical literature, asserts that Dick was not the mad romantic he is often assumed to be today, but rather 'a bone-dry intellectual humorist, a satirist concerned with taking contemporary practices and beliefs to their reductio ad absurdum'. Seen in this light, Dick's most famous book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' (later filmed as Blade Runner) could be read as a pretty sober discussion of what actually constitutes human life. Wonderful stuff.
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