"tomato man" <bouncing_tomato.DeleteThis@juno.com!> wrote...
> P Sears <sears.DeleteThis@vt.nospam.edu> wrote..
> > Here's R. Crumb's illustrated version of the events:
> >
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>
> Thanks for the replies. That's a pretty intense story. The bit at the end
> about a cipher in Flow My Tears (writing was pretty small, hope I got that
> right) was curious. It conspicuously didn't say anything about the
location
> of the cipher.
From:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.philipkdickfans.com/pkdweb/FLOW%20MY%20TEARS.htm" target="_blank">http://www.philipkdickfans.com/pkdweb/FLOW%20MY%20TEARS.htm</a>
On p151 0f VALIS, Fat tells his friends "The two-word cypher
signal KING FELIX" was sent out in Feb '74, and that "the united
States Army cryptographers studied it, but couldn't discern who it
was intended for or what it meant." Fat's friends ask him how he
knows that, but he won't say; nor does he explain in what form it
appeared.
Phil himself, though, was less reticent, and once pointed out that on
p218 of the first edition of FLOW MY TEARS the last paragraph
break juxtaposes the word "king" directly over the name "Felix".
The novel was published in Feb 1974, and Phil said Doubleday
told him that the Army did buy -- as I recall -- more than 400
copies of it {Tim Powers}
-Jay<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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