«I have an electronic dream»

The FACTS are only part of the PROBLEM, not of the SOLUTION.
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Back home again he uncorked the wine, let it breath, drank a few glasses of it and tried to think of something meaningful, but could not. And then, with a glass of Merlot, gulped down all the pills at once.

However, he had been burned. The capsules were not barbiturates, as represented. They were some kind of cheap psychedelics, of a type he had never dropped before, probably a mixture, and new on the market. Instead of quietly suffocating, Charles Freck began to hallucinate. He had to face the FACT - considering how many of the capsules he had swallowed - that he was in for some trip...

by k. dick
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