“We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.”

—  Philip K. Dick, book The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

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