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Subject: Re: Is PKD really dead?
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 21:15:50 EST
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In article <645@neon.kcl-cs.UUCP> ramsay@kcl-cs.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>>>....  Philip Dick is also wonderful, but he's not writing
>>>much these days....
>>How do you know?  Just because he's not getting much published doesn't
>>mean he's not writing (as I know to my regret.)  Maybe the mail service
>>is not very efffective from where he is?
>>			Charlie Martin
>>			(...mcnc!duke!crm)
>
>I could be wrong about this, but didn't Philip Dick die in 1982? This is what
>it says in the front of one of his books I have (can't remember which). If he
>was fooling, it was well detailed - it even said that the book in question was
>published with the permission of his estate. Anyone know?
>
>			R. Ramsay
>

  I think a slight lack of netiquette is what caused the misunderstanding.
Charlie should have followed the article with a nice little ':-)' or even
':-(' - new symbol for a sick joke anyone. What do you think he means by
"Maybe the mail symbol is not very effective from where he is?"?
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