Talk:Warehouse Most Wanted List/@comment-24509764-20140330144042/@comment-24509764-20140330200637

Nice. The I Ching is an ancient Chinese text that was used as a form of fortune telling and divination in ancient times. Dick used this in his novel in the Man in the High Castle, an alternate reality where the Axis powers won WWII and are in their own Cold War. In it, one of the characters is an author writing an alternate history novel about what would happen if the Allies won WWII, with Britain replacing the Soviet Union as the other world power in our Cold War.

I think Dick used the I Ching's outcomes to help him write the events of the story. And the downside is because he was not always mentally sure of what was real and what was a lie.