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((Short description|Science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick))
'''"Meddler"''' is a [[science fiction]] [[short story]] by American writer [[Philip K. Dick]]. It was first published in ''[[Future Science Fiction]]'', October 1954 with illustration by [[Virgil Finlay]].<ref name="Levack"> Levack, Daniel (1981). PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, [[Underwood/Miller]], pp. 108-109. ((ISBN|0-934438-33-1))</ref>  Dick had submitted many short stories to magazines and made approximately fifteen sales before becoming a client of the [[Scott Meredith Literary Agency]]. This was his second SMLA submission, received by SMLA on July 24, 1952. His first SMLA submission was ''The Builder'', received by SMLA on July 23, 1952.<ref>Rickman, Gregg (1989), ''[[To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1963]]'', Long Beach, Ca.: Fragments West/The Valentine Press, p.388 ((ISBN|0-916063-24-0))</ref>

==Synopsis==

A government Council illegally makes Time Dips into the future with escalation of adverse consequences following each time-dip. The protagonist, Hasten, is sent in a Time Car as a last-ditch attempt to learn how this meddling worked its destructive force and how to correct the problem. Hasten eventually learns his return trip is apparently the ultimate cause.

==About the story==

In 1978, Dick said about "Meddler":

((bquote|Within the beautiful lurks the ugly; you can see in this rather crude story the germ of my whole theme that nothing is what it seems. This story should be read as a trial run on my part; I was just beginning to grasp that obvious form and latent form are not the same thing. As [[Heraclitus]] said in fragment 54: “Latent structure is master of obvious structure,” and out of this comes the later more sophisticated [[Plato|Platonic]] dualism between the phenomenal world and the real but invisible realm of forms lying behind it. I may be reading too much into this simple-minded early story, but at least I was beginning to see in a dim way what I later saw so clearly; in fragment 123, Heraclitus said, “The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself,” and therein lies it all. <ref>[[Beyond Lies the Wub (collection)| Beyond Lies the Wub]] (1988), [[Victor Gollancz Ltd|Gollancz]], p. 404 ((ISBN|0-575-04407-1))</ref>))

==References==
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== External links ==
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