Doctor Labyrinth, like most people who read a great deal and who have too much time on their hands, had become convinced that our civilization was going the way of Rome. He saw, I think, the same cracks forming that had sundered the ancient world, the world of Greece and Rome; and it was his conviction that presently our world, our society, would pass away as theirs did, and a period of darkness would follow.


"The Preserving Machine" (1953), The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, v.1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1987)

Philip K. Dick Quotes

Doctor Labyrinth, like most people who read a great deal and who have too much time on their hands, had become convinced that our civilization was...

Doctor Labyrinth, like most people who read a great deal and who have too much time on their hands, had become convinced that our civilization was...

Doctor Labyrinth, like most people who read a great deal and who have too much time on their hands, had become convinced that our civilization was...

Doctor Labyrinth, like most people who read a great deal and who have too much time on their hands, had become convinced that our civilization was...