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| Psycho-Lease Encephalic Gadget | ||
| A device that provided the conviction that a faked scene was, in fact, real. |
The ersatz window, which provided a fake view for Joe Fernwright's underground apt needed this item to make it seem real.
| ...of late, due to his bad financial situation he had given up trying to imagine that he lived on a great hill with a view of the sea and towering redwoods; he had become content - or rather resigned - to face blank, inert black glass. And, in addition, if that wasn't enough, he had let his psycho-lease lapse: the encephalic gadget installed in a closet of his room which, while he was "home," compelled his brain to believe that his ersatz view of Carmel was authentic. |
| Technovelgy from Galactic Pot-Healer,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Berkley Publishing in 1969 Additional resources -
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Dick steals the basic idea for this from himself; see the entry for the swibble from his 1955 short story Service Call.
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