So far The Three Stigmata is very interesting. The
characters are not too hard to keep track of, unlike the other books we've
read. I find the concept of Chew-Z and Can-D to be a bit confusing just because
it's hard to understand how they can go into a layout of a mini-world and see
through the eyes of characters in the layout. I found it hard to follow when
Bulero takes Chew-Z and his mind is transferred to that satellite. It’s creepy
that Eldritch was in the body of the little girl; it was hard to tell if
anything in that scene was real or not. Was he really communicating with Mayerson
by means of the suitcase or was he imagining it? I'm intrigued by life on Mars
and the fact that characters live underground and can't grow any vegetation. It’s
interesting that all of this is taking place after global warming. I can’t
imagine our world being so hot that we can’t go outside after 8:30 in the
morning. I’m curious about how/if Bluero will kill Eldritch and he will be the
hero of the Sol System!
I struggled with that section of the reading as well. I think that was where I read that the aliens created the "global warming" and that it is not real. I am wondering if that was a story that was made up in the Chew-Z hallucination, or it there is truth behind it. Interested to see what happens next.
ReplyDeleteI was creeped out when Eldritch did that too!!
ReplyDeleteI also thought the passage when Bulero took Chew-z was hard to follow. It's interesting because I think that was PKD's way of showing what drugs could do. Maybe he was even subtly saying don't do drugs ;)