From: "Greene, Carlton" <CGreene2@hunton.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Philip K. Dick influence on GW
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:27:30 

Jeremy wrote:

> I have a quick question: has anybody ever thought about possible
> influences
> on Wolfe's work by Philip K. Dick? I'm thinking of the scene for example
> in
> URTH where Severian speculates that the door may have been bribed, and the
> scene in UBIK where Joe Chip doesn't have a nickel to give the doorknob.
> It's quite a famous PKD scene so it might not be as obscure as it sounds.
> 
> I don't recall there being discussion about this before. Can anybody think
> of any others?
> 
One quick and easy parallel is the use of proper names translated to reflect
the original meanings of the words.  Compare PKD's Horselover Fat with Seven
Lions in Soldier.

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