Flow My Tears

Over the last few days I have posted bits from Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said written by my favorite author Philip K. Dick. His stories ask big questions about life and what it is to be human. The excerpts I selected summarize the message of the book if not the story: grief, love, fear, solitude, and in the end tears. The first four lead to tears eventually and sometimes often. The book is about human emotions--especially love in all of its forms, some of them twisted and ugly and torturous. Philip writes his own experiences into his stories. Without knowing much of his biography I can tell that relationships were a monumental part of his life and affected him deeply. What he learned from his own relationships he wrote into this book.