Phillip K. Dick believed that time stopped in the first century and that everything thereafter was part of VALIS, a computer that created fictional realities, and that Nixon was the emperor of Rome. And once he lost contact with VALIS, he felt worse than death, like he was connected directly with God, and that once that connection was severed, his life was meaningless. They made a robot version of him in 2006 and it was lost on an airplane.

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