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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Flashcards

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Rick Deckard

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Main character. Bounty hunter.

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Groucho

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The sheep Rick Deckard had before the start the novel. It died of tetanus.

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Bill Barbour

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Rick and Iran’s neighbour.

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Iran Deckard

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Rick’s wife.

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John Isidore

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Other main character. A lonely man, a chickenhead, who lives alone in a big apartment building.

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Mrs Klugman

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The woman shown on TV who likes Mars a lot better than Earth.

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Hannibal Sloat

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Isidore’s boss at the Van Ness Pet Hospital.

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Wilbur Mercer

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A virtual reality Christ figure in this world.

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Harry Bryant

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Rick Deckard’s superior

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Dave Holden

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A fellow bounty hunter who got shot by a Nexus-6 robot. Rick takes on his mission, setting the events of the story into action.

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Rachael Rosen

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The femme fatale of the novel. She is an android owned by the Rosen Association who Rick falls in love with, just like many other bounty hunters before him.

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Eldon Rosen

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The head of the Rosen Association and Rachael Rosen’s “grandfather”.

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Scrappy

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The artificial owl Rick is offered by the Rosen Association

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Pris Stratton

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The android that moves into Isidore’s apartment complex. She looks just like Rachael Rosen.

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Buster Friendly

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A famous talk-show host who turns out to be an android.

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Horace

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A cat owned by Mr. and Mrs. Pilsen. He dies of pneumonitis. The Van Ness Pet Hospital offers to make Mrs. Pilsen a new electric Horace without Mr. Pilsen knowing.

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Milt Borogrove

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Isidore’s co-worker who comes to his defence when Sloat is being mean to Isidore. He is considered smarter than Isidore.

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Mrs. Pilsen

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A woman who had Horace the cat. It died and she ordered for a new electric cat to be made in his place.

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Mr. Pilsen

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Mrs. Pilsen’s husband and the other owner of Horace the cat.

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Polokov

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An android on Dave Holden’s hitlist. Rick is looking for Polokov for a big part of this chapter in order to retire him.

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Sandor Kadalyi

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A Soviet cop that is meant to be joining Rick Deckard on his mission to hunt down Luba Luft. Instead he is attacked by Polokov in disguise.

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Luba Luft

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Luba Luft is an android who came to Earth to be an opera singer, and Rick first encounters her while she is on break rehearsing as Pamina in Mozart’sThe Magic Flute. Rick eventually develops empathy toward Luba Luft, which ends up changing his entire attitude toward androids and his own existence.

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Phil Resch

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Phil Resch is a fellow bounty hunter and briefly Rick’s partner. They meet in the android-run police station where Resch is employed, and just about the first thing we see Resch do is shoot his superior officer Garland, right when Resch realizes that the guy’s an android.

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Officer Garland

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Garland runs a police operation in San Francisco as a senior officer. Spoiler warning: Garland and the entire staff of said police operation turn out to be androids. Phil Resch manages to retire Garland, but not before the senior officer puts the doubt of Resch’s humanity in Rick’s mind.

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Ann Marsten

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Ann is Harry Bryant’s secretary. She seems like a one-and-done character, but then appears near the novel’s conclusion to talk Rick down in his moment of need.

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Amanda Werner and Oscar Scruggs

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These two pop icons appear frequently on the Buster Friendly show. They are later revealed to be androids.

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Mr. Ackers

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The personnel manager at the Bay Area Scavengers Company.

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Officer Crams

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The guy Luba Luft calls to get rid of Rick when he is administering the Voigt-Kampff test on her. He is later revealed to be an android working for the fake android San Francisco police department.

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Anders and Gitchel

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The two androids Dave Holden retires before Polokov gets him.

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Wade Cortot

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A special effects guy who becomes a major source for Buster Friendly in defrauding Mercerism.

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Al Jerry

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The actor who played Wilbur Mercer.

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Roy and Irmgard Baty

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An android couple who emigrated from Mars. They travel with Pris Stratton and also knew Luba Luft before she was killed. Like other androids, they lack empathy.

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What device allows humans to mentally merge with Wilber Mercer in his weird quasi-dream reality?

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The Empathy Box.

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The androids Rick hunts in the story are what production model?

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Nexus-6

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What nifty invention allows Rick to travel from San Francisco to Seattle in about an hour?

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A hovercar.

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What device allows Rick and Iran to change their mood simply by dialing a certain setting?

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The Penfield Mood Organ.

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Polokov uses a modified one of these to try and kill Rick.

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A laser tube.

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What extinct animal does Rick discover before learning it is electric?

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A toad.

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Before going on his android hunt, Rick calls a pet shop to ask how much an animal would cost. What animal does he price check?

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An ostrich.

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What animal does Isidore find and Pris cut the legs off of?

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A spider.

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Isidore brings this animal to the repair shop only to learn that it is the real deal and not electric.

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A cat.

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What type of electric animal does Rick use to trick his neighbors at the novel’s beginning?

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A sheep.

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What painting did Phil Resch believe represented how an android must feel?

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‘The Scream’ by Munch.

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Who lives isolated in an abandoned apartment building because he is considered “a chickenhead”?

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John Isidore.

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What does the Voigt-Kampff measure to determine if someone is a human or an android?

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Empathy.

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What real animal does Rick buy to replace his electric sheep?

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A goat.

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Rick thinks one human character is an android because he or she lacks empathy. Who is it?

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His bounty hunter partner, Phil Resch.

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What two animals were the most beloved of Wilbur Mercer?

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The donkey and the toad.

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What television icon announced that Mercerism is a fraud?

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Buster Friendly.

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What does Isidore call the useless junk that reproduces itself when nobody is around to stop it?

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Kipple.

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What animal does Rachael compare her android kith and kin to?

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Ants.

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What test does Rick administer to tell if a person is really an android?

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The Voigt-Kampff test.

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Who said, “I really don’t like androids. Ever since I got here from Mars my life has consisted of imitating the human, doing what she would do, acting as if I had the thoughts and impulses a human would have.”

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Luba Luft.

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Who said, “I was right … Didn’t I say [the spider] could walk with only four legs?”

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Irmgard Baty.

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Who said (incorrectly), “It’s not in accord with present-day Mercerian ethics,” he pointed out. “All life is one; ‘no man is an island,’ as Shakespeare said in olden times.”

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John Isidore.

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“Fine,” _____ said. “I want [the electric toad] to work perfectly. My husband is devoted to it.”

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Iran Deckard.

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“I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you’re depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone then by means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don’t care. Apathy, because you’ve lost a sense of worth. It doesn’t matter whether you feel better because you have no worth.”

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Iran Deckard.

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“You mean old books?”

“Stories written before space travel but about space travel.”

“How could there have been stories about space travel before –”

“The writers,” Pris said, “made it up.”

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A conversation between Isidore and Pris Stratton.

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“You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it… But now it has changed. You can’t go back, he thought. You can’t go from people to nonpeople.”

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John Isidore.

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“Maybe I’ll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.”

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Rick Deckard.

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“There’s the First Law of Kipple,” he said. “‘Kipple drives out nonkipple.’ Like Gresham’s law about bad money. And in these apartments there’s been nobody here to fight the kipple.”

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Isidore in a conversation with Pris Stratton about kipple.

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“At that moment, when I had the TV sound off, I was in a 382 mood; I had just dialed it. So although I heard the emptiness intellectually, I didn’t feel it. My first reaction consisted of being grateful that we could afford a Penfield mood organ. But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing the absence of life, not just in this building but everywhere, and not reacting—do you see? I guess you don’t. But that used to be considered a sign of mental illness; they called it ‘absence of appropriate affect.’ So I left the TV sound off and I sat down at my mood organ and I experimented. And I finally found a setting for despair. So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that’s a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything, about staying here on Earth after everybody who’s smart has emigrated, don’t you think?”

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Iran Deckard.

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“Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up out of the tattered gray wall-to-wall carpeting. It unleashed itself from the broken and semi-broken appliances in the kitchen, the dead machines which hadn’t worked in all the time Isidore had lived here. From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty and wordless descent of itself from the fly-specked ceiling. It managed in fact to emerge from every object within his range of vision, as if it—the silence—meant to supplant all things tangible. Hence it assailed not only his ears but his eyes; as he stood by the inert TV set he experienced the silence as visible and, in its own way, alive. Alive! He had often felt its austere approach before; when it came it burst in without subtlety, evidently unable to wait. The silence of the world could not rein back its greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.”

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When Isidore turns the TV off.

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“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”

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Wilbur Mercer to Rick.

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“Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida.”

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Rick Deckard.

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“In front of him he distinguished a shadowy figure, motionless. ‘Wilbur Mercer! Is that you?’ My god, he realized; it’s my shadow. I have to get out of here, down off this hill!”

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Rick Deckard while using the Empathy Box.

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“The spider Mercer gave the chicken-head, Isidore; it probably was artificial, too. But it doesn’t matter. The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.”

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Rick Deckard.

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