“A psychologist said, “They used to talk about seeing only ‘reflections’ of reality. Not reality itself. The main thing wrong with a reflection is not that it isn’t real, but that it’s reversed.””

Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 13 (p. 213)

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American author 1928–1982

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