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A comment on Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines and Dope Fiends: On Synanon (2013).

Re:Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines and Dope Fi... by ggm on Sunday November 18, 2018 @04:16PM (#18482583)
Anyone else think "a scanner darkly" was about some experience PKD or a close friend had in synanon?
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Re:Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines and Dope Fi... by fjsolwmv on Sunday November 18, 2018 @05:43PM (#18482890)
It's well known. The book is about X-Kalay canadian synanon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly

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Re:Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines and Dope Fi... by ggm on Sunday November 18, 2018 @07:38PM (#18483385)
Thanks for the pointer! It's been years since i read the book, well before Internet days. I should have done my homework before posting.
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