Project Gutenberg 2010-03-06 Public domain in the USA. 4543 Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 Dick, Philip Kindred The Eyes Have It Reading ease score: 78.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Eyes Have It" by Philip K. Dick is a short science fiction story written in the early to mid-20th century. The work delves into themes of perception and reality, illustrating how ordinary observations can take on extraordinary implications when viewed from a different perspective. It showcases Dick's signature style of blending unsettling humor with speculative ideas. The narrative follows an unnamed protagonist who stumbles upon a seemingly innocuous book featuring peculiar descriptions of human anatomy. As he reads, he grows increasingly alarmed by the bizarre possibility that the characters in the story are actually alien life forms capable of detaching their body parts. The protagonist's mounting horror is compounded by his realization that these nonhuman beings live without any regard for their missing limbs or organs, treating such actions as mundane. Ultimately, the tale culminates in the protagonist's desperate attempt to escape the unsettling implications of the story, suggesting a whimsical yet unnerving critique of human nature and societal norms. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Humorous stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Humour Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 34638 34639 2024-10-13T10:54:44.939689 2023-09-14T04:32:19.217997 text/html text/html 30873 2021-01-06T06:37:36 text/html; charset=utf-8 11713 2021-01-06T06:37:36 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 75536 2024-10-13T10:54:48.931676 application/epub+zip 74328 2024-10-13T10:54:46.713689 application/epub+zip 74328 2024-10-13T10:54:45.576686 application/epub+zip 163568 2024-10-13T10:54:50.566667 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 156572 2024-10-13T10:54:48.244693 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 132414 2022-09-14T12:15:33.002993 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 26880 26781 2024-10-13T10:54:44.606697 2023-09-14T04:32:19.048982 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 26770 2021-01-06T06:37:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 10263 2021-01-06T06:37:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20446 2024-10-13T10:54:50.695672 application/rdf+xml 12799 2024-10-13T10:54:46.113705 image/jpeg 3336 2024-10-13T10:54:45.843693 image/jpeg 74111 2024-10-13T10:54:44.943711 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia