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But it sounds like--
What else are you gonna do, right?
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Anyway, I read this essay
by Philip K.. Dick.
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What, you read it
in your dream?
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No, no. I read it
before the dream.
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It was the preamble
to the dream.
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It was about that book,
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
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- You know that one?
- Yeah, yeah. He won
an award for that one.
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Right. That's the one
he wrote really fast.
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It just, like, flowed
right out of him.
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He felt he was sort
of channeling it or something.
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But anyway, about four years
after it was published,
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he was at this party
and he met this woman...
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who had the same name
as the woman character in the book.
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And she had a boyfriend with
the same name as the boyfriend
character in the book.
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and she was having an affair
with this guy, the chief of police.
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And he had the same name
as the chief of police in his book.
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So she's telling him
all this stuff from her life,
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and everything she's saying
is right out of his book.
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So that's really freaking him out,
but what can he do?
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And shortly after that,
he was going to mail a letter,
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and he saw this kind of, um, dangerous,
shady-looking guy standing by his car.
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But instead of avoiding him, which he
said he usually would have done,
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he walked right up to him
and said, "Can I help you?"
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And the guy said,
"Yeah. I ran out of gas."
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He pulls out his wallet and he
hands him some money, which he
says he never would have done.
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And then he gets home and
he thinks, "Wait a second.
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This guy can't get
to a gas station. He's out of gas."
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So he gets back in his car. He finds
the guy, takes him to the gas station.
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And as he's pulling up
to the gas station,
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he realizes, " Hey,
this is in my book too.
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This exact station.
This exact guy. Everything. "
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So this whole episode
is kind of creepy, right?
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And he's telling
his priest about it,
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describing
how he wrote this book,
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and four years later,
all these things happened to him.
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And as he's telling it to him, the
priest says, "That's the Book of Acts.
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You're describing
the Book of Acts."
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He's like,
"I've never read
the Book of Acts."
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So he goes home
and reads the Book of Acts,
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and it's, like,
you know, uncanny.
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Even the characters' names
are the same as in the Bible.