<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#33cccc;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d6b073c0-e90e-482b-baaa-56bbc6c6d21b/3DC9757E-8D18-4111-BB88-C689287CCE0E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm" href="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm"><STRONG>A Scanner Darkly</STRONG> is a 1977 science fiction novel by <STRONG>Philip K. Dick</STRONG>. The semi-autobiographical story was set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the future of 1994.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/img/9B045AAD-B2F1-4F89-936D-A8521DBCA25C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm">The "scanner" of the title is a holographic recorder/projector on which the main character views clips of his own life but doesn't recognize them</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm">Scanner Darkly are also the initials of Substance D.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm">Use of SD over an extended period can cause the user's consciousness to separate into two distinct parts. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm"> At the end of the book, we find out that Substance D is an organic substance, derived from little blue flowers that are grown on large plantations, hidden between rows of corn as cover. Ironically, the drug is harvested by the brainwashed inmates of SD drug rehabilitation centers who are suffering from neurocognitive deficits as a result of their drug addiction.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/img/EF4B3DDE-B66F-400E-9287-0FEDBC6C829E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm">Philip K. Dick also gives the name of the species of the flower,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm">Mors ontologica</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm">"the death of knowledge of existence."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crystaleagle.blog-city.com/ascannerdarkly.htm"><DIV><A href="http://www.philipkdick.com/" target="_blank" linkindex="31"><FONT size="2">Philip K Dick</FONT></A><FONT size="2"> | </FONT><A href="http://wip.warnerbros.com/ascannerdarkly/" target="_blank" linkindex="32"><FONT size="2">A Scanner Darkly - film</FONT></A></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3DC9757E-8D18-4111-BB88-C689287CCE0E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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