Hey, if you like books.....

Henry Miller... Death of a Salesman! - yes!

Have you also seen the booker prize short list of booker winners - based on the 50 yrs of the literary award?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/26/man-booker-prize-novel-golden-five-shortlist

this is also a list of top reads and you can also tick off the ones you’ve read..

http://thegreatestbooks.org

Reading that link it's strange they never touched on Mercerism. Ironically they end up worshipping the things they have destroyed.

I was trying to tell them that the goat and the toad were a plot device for empathy. Empathy doesn't necessarily have to be positive. When she kills the goat she shows a clear understanding for empathy, Deckard barely manages the same level when he discovers the "mystical" toad is synthetic. Meanwhile he couldn't manage the same level of empathy for the Nexus-6 models. That theme for me was sort of thought provoking too. Was man's creation more in tune with the balance than gods in the context of the story. I'm going to read that link, should be interesting.

Phillip K Todger has a dim view of man imo! It served as great fuel for his imagination though!

How about the follow-up, "Lila"?

Have been meaning to go back to ZMM for a while. 

Henry Miller? I find the anti-establishment vibe in the two Tropics to be the likely reason for the 20th century bans. 

A recurring theme of the author is our relationship with the natural world and conversely ourselves and our own humanity.

”humans don’t just want to have contact with animals; they want to own them, thereby proving that they have time and the money to spend on the natural world. In the end, *** steers us toward the cynical conclusion that it’s human nature not only to love the environment but also to control it and thus ultimately destroy it. One of the few times in the novel when the android Rachel Rosen demonstrates a recognizably human emotion (spitefulness and cruelty) is when she pushes Rick Deckard’s goat off the roof, killing it. There’s something disturbingly human about Rachel’s act of vengeance: humans feel a tragic instinct to assert their power by conquering and destroying the natural world. In the book, the deserts surrounding San Francisco are concrete proof of mankind’s need to control the environment. Moreover, the fact that characters want to colonize other planets—asserting their control over new, unfamiliar environments—suggests that humans haven’t learned from their mistakes.“

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/themes/animals-and-the-environment

There is a short story in Second Variety of a similar vein.. in which humans create a micro-cosmic world in which they can nurture their own mini species evolution. The winner in accepting the award smashes his own creation to the ground...

so man wants to kill its creator and kill what it controls

Funny you mention Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I was talking to someone how important the toad and the goat were the other day. They didn't get it.

I have no idea if it was attributed to Boccaccio but it is a common Italian saying, such as:

Non tutte le ciambelle riescono col buco.

Literally meaning “Not all doughnuts come out with a hole.”... or mistakes happen

I’m glad you enjoyed it DC. :-)

This is getting silly!! Lol.

however I particularly enjoyed the short stories in Second Variety and consequently my first philosophy lecture was on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? As an opener on what it means to be human and the concept of killing your maker

 Phillip K Shlong had a problem with hardbacks. He was an amphetamine addict so they were few and far between.

Greetings... I had allowance last night and so I read this story. I am most of all glad that it had a "Happy Ending" for the Rabbit. This is the kind of ditty I would write if allowed. So I am also writing a "Thank You" as well, here, to Miss Nasally-Enhanced...  :-)

Lol.. consequently... it might not 

Is this a more recent writer?

The first suggestion might be hard.....

The book that inspired me is: The twelfth angel by Og Mnadino.

Non era Boccaccio che a scritto queste parole?

Bevici su – Il bar non porta i ricordi. Sono i ricordi che portano al bar.

ooooo that worked,,,,

so does

Philip K Richard (abbrev.)

In term of Philip K Penis?