In 1980 my gross income was $ 184.000, and I live in a small apartment in the Mexican barrio, and I type on this manual Olympia that I bought back in 1964, and the couch in my living room is broken, and the cats have trashed it and my chair as well.

Brief, den Philip K. Dick wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod an den Produzenten eines Fernsehfilms über Mickey Spillane schrieb. Dokument eines erschütterten Selbstbilds: armer, reicher Poet.

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