Juliana is wearing a Frink-produced pin at the time, which should be the key to entering that world, but PKD stops short of going there. Juliana uses the I Ching to determine that “The Grasshopper Lies Heavy” by Hawthorne Abendsen (a Salman Rushdie-type controversial novelist) is a truthful account of life after the Allies win the war. Sort of like tarot cards, this method purports to tell the truth about a person’s situation. The trick up PKD’s sleeve is that the I Ching has become popular, coming over from Chinese tradition via the Japanese. (Interestingly, PKD himself would experience a spiritual vision of an alternate reality a decade later, which makes one wonder if it was a case of the cart leading the horse.)īoth “The Wish” and “MITHC” have the tricky task where the narrative thrust is to get these people from the bad alternate reality into the good real world, yet no one knows they are in the “wrong” reality. Tagomi meditates on a piece of Frink’s jewelry and finds himself in what we readers know as reality – the one where the Allies, not Japan and Germany, win World War II. In PKD’s novel, San Francisco official Mr. It’s an oversight on the part of me and other “Buffy” fans that we don’t reference “Man in the High Castle” enough when talking about “The Wish” (Season 3, episode 8), where Giles smashes a pendant to go to an alternate reality that he suspects “has to be” better than the vampire-controlled Sunnydale he lives in. The jewelry is a small point in the book, yet the pivotal one. Setting: San Francisco, 1962, with America ruled by the Germans and Japanese Genres: Alternate history, science fiction Also in SF is antique- and trinket-shop owner Childan, who accepts jewelry on consignment from Frink and his partner, Ed, after a highly entertaining bargaining sequence. PKD also chronicles her husband, Frank Frink, a Jewish jewelry maker plopped in San Francisco, in the Japanese-controlled Pacific States.
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One benefit of the TV adaptation is that I picture the beautiful Alexa Davalos as Juliana Frink, a wild spirit who has run off to the Rocky Mountain States.
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Dick’s most literary works – which is why the TV series is inspired by the book more so than adapting it – as it features nearly a dozen leads and offers its pleasures through subtle moments more so than big ones. But it did inspire me to give the book another shot, and I really liked it this time. I remember disliking “The Man in the High Castle” (1962) on my first read, and the Amazon Prime adaptation (2015-present) – so bleak that I’d have to increase my antidepressant dosage to keep watching – didn’t alter my view.
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