(...that thing that's taken refuge there in that zinc bucket, without a wife, a career, a conapt, or money or the possibility of encountering any of these, still persists. For reasons unknown to me its stake in existence is greater than mine.)
作者Philip K. Dick (0 评论)
在菲利普·K·迪克(Philip K. Dick)的“现在等待去年”中,叙事通过角色对看似微不足道的居住在锌桶中的看法的思考来探讨存在和目的的主题。缺乏社会结构,例如配偶,工作或家庭,象征着一种原始的存在形式,它提出了有关生命价值超出物质成功和社会验证的问题。