When I wrote Ubik I constructed a world (universe) which differed from ours in only one respect: it lacked the driving force forward of time. That time in our own actual universe could weaken, or even go entirely away, did not occur to me because at that point I did not conceive time as a force at all . . . I thought of it in Kantian terms [time as a mental construct projected onto the world]. As a mode of subjective perception. Now I believe that time, at this point in the expansion of the universe (or for some other reasons), has in fact actually begun to weaken, at least in ratio to certain other fields. Therefore, this being true, a measure of the Ubik-experience could be anticipated. I have indeed had that experience, or a measure thereof. That is, time still drives on, but counter forces have surfaced and impinge, laying bare the Ubik-landscape--only for a few moments, that is, temporarily. Then time resumes its sovereignty. 4-5
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