Philip K Dick was visionary. But they were tortured visions. The kind where you wake up in a cold sweat. I knew Philip. I accepted him. Excesses and all. The words that he wrote, dripped honey on the paper. I was drawn to his writing like a moth to a flame. I had to have all the things he penned. But, I can't think that I didn't have a hand or a leg(albeit invisible) in his writing career.
People gravitate to his novel Blade Runner, or, for those in the know, such as myself, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep. But, I was enamored with his masterpiece, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch.
I was so fascinated by it because I am positive he was so inspired by my sci fi master piece I wrote two years before he wrote his. The Machinations of Dr. Groovis Toovis.
The Machinations of Dr. Groovis Toovis, is a story about a super villian like Dr. Fu Manchu. In it he wakes up one day with a vision that he can change the world and make it a more groovy place by putting LSD in the water supply of Los Angeles, thus expanding the population's collective mind and bringing it to the highest elevation of enlightenment. But something goes awry.
I will not tell you the rest because I want you to hunt down this classic and read it and gain your own enrichment.