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Chapters 1-2

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Dick, Philip K. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1965. E-book.

• The epigraph consists of “an interoffice audio-memo circulated to Pre-Fash consultants at Perky Pat Layouts, dictated by Leo Bulero immediately on his return to Mars” (iv) and touches on themes like perseverance and hope.

• Chapter 1 begins.

• Barney Mayerson wakes up in a strange apartment with a nasty hangover and sees that it is 7:30 a.m.

• Barney asks questions of Dr. Smile, an electronic psychiatrist built into the innards of a briefcase.

• Dr. Smile tells Barney that he is in the home of Roni Fugate, his newly hired assistant, and that he and Roni had spent the previous night engaged in a sexual encounter.

• Barney slowly recovers some of his memories from the night before, but not all.

• Dr. Smile suggests...

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