The Man in the High Castle

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Anyway, for me The Man in the High Castle's main draw is its collection of really, really good scenes. Scenes about a shop owner. About two guys trying to set up a handmade jewelry business. About a woman having a fling. Small, slow scenes, unspectacular in the light of World Politics or the African Holocaust. Yet somehow Dick manages to imbue them with life and atmosphere and humanity. Somehow they stand their own in the midst of sentences about history "passing us by", the evocative power of fiction -- "even cheap popular fiction", "plutocrats", "Fascist theory of action" or the fact that "it's all darkness".

So maybe Joe Cinnadella is right when he claims that it is no "big issue" who wins out. Maybe Dick was a cynic who tried to show that either way, life is life.

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