October 1977
Dick sees his 26 years of writing as a map or guide to his 3-74 experience. Without the experience the writing would have been a map of nothing, and without the writing to guide him after the experience he would have been lost. He cites Ubik, Time out of Joint, A Maze of Death and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch as examples that illustrate orthogonal time breaking through into a false world.
He looks at A Scanner Darkly in a new way and wonders who the tyrant is in the circular system of control in that book if it isn’t the government.