Philip K DickA brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it.
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A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it. The things we buy can be like funny money.
We pay with cash that is useless to us, but it has some sort of value to someone else. Sometimes we end up with something that is totally worn out, even though we didn’t need it in the first place. Such things can be like worthless money or worthless articles purchased.
It has a sort of logic to it because we paid for them with a kind of worthless money or a worthless item.
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