"NOTHING COULD BE MORE IMPOLITE. TO SAY, “IS YOUR SHEEP GENUINE?” WOULD BE A WORSE BREACH OF MANNERS." PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on a rare photo of a young Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), undated, but probably c. mid to late 1950s, with a sheep. The electric status of said sheep remains unknown. PICS #2 & 3: Cover art to the first British edition of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," written by Philip K. Dick. London: Rapp and Whiting, published 1969. "He thought, too, about his need for a real animal; within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about, as if it lived. The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn’t know I exist. Like the androids, it had no ability to appreciate the existence of another."
-- Philip K. Dick, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," originally published 1968
Sources: www.reddit.com/r/bladerunner/comments/av66zu, www.booktryst.com/2010/08/do-bibliophiles-dream-of-electric-sheep.html, various, etc...
