PKD's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Put Arendt aside (for a bit?) to delve into Dick. I'm not usually a sci-fi person (except for being a Tarkovsky and Blade Runner fan), so I decided to start with Electric Sheep. Have always loved the title.

Enjoying it so far. Might even get myself an Empathy Box.

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 Excerpt:

He thought, too, about his need for a real animal; within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about, as if it lived. The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn’t know I exist. Like the androids, it had no ability to appreciate the existence of another. He had never thought of this before, the similarity between an electric animal and an andy. The electric animal, he pondered, could be considered a subform of the other, a kind of vastly inferior robot. Or, conversely, the android could be regarded as a highly developed, evolved version of the ersatz animal. Both viewpoints repelled him.