ALS signed "Phil," one page on a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard, March 14, 1981. Handwritten letter to science fiction author Patricia Warrick, marked in the return address area as "Footnote to Letter Three, Card A," in full: "If he sees the same object (tree x) at two times & two places, & he can be sure that it is the same object, then (he realizes) space & time are not real, since it is logically impossible that the same object can be at two times & two places. This has to be. Thus he abolishes spatiotemporality, conceptually & perceptually." In fine condition.
In the months of February and March 1974, Dick, then still convalescing and medicating himself from an impacted wisdom tooth, began to experience a series of hallucinations. Dick, who referred to them as '2-3-74' in the shorthand, believed that his thoughts were being invaded 'by a transcendentally rational mind' of which he referred to as 'Zebra,' 'God,' or 'VALIS.' He documented these experiences in a series of letters to Patricia Warrick, which touched upon science, religion, and philosophy. These concepts formed the basis of his 1981 sci-fi novel VALIS.
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