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Spoken words that crystalized my understanding

Once, when my Dad fell and injured his head, I went to the hospital to find Dad muttering about systems management and fishermen. My thoughts went to the fishermen in the Philip K Dick novel, Valis, which Dick said was a true story that no one would believe to be true, and so Dick wrote the story as fiction.

Valis is about a time in the 1970s when Philip K Dick was seeing ancient Rome transposed on the streets of San Fransisco. The fishermen were a symbol of Christianity.

Dad called himself an agnostic most of his life, but in later years, when he could no longer read, he listened to the entire New Testament on tape.

The day after his brain injury, Dad was walking down the hospital halls with the aid of a walker and the older physician was telling the younger physician “Just forget you saw that brain scan”

As I listened to Dad repeating “system’s management” I realized that Dad was syste…