“Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.”

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

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

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