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Staff Pick by comrade: rats alice

What is VALIS? It's not science fiction. It's something else. A book about madness. A cry for help into a universe that is either empty, deaf, or uncaring. Trying to decipher the tragedy of being left to our own devices. Where does suffering come from? And what can we even do with ourselves after our lives are overtaken by the current? "It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane." There is a conflicted parable here about anarchism, civilization, institutional medicine, religion, and poverty. How do we live with ourselves when there isn't a way out and we can't be cured?