I have just added this to my archive and wanted to share with you the section where Dick incorporates another of my cultural idols: Frank Zappa.

"I'm commissioning a rock mass to be given at Grace this Christmas." Scrutinizing me he said, "What do you think about Frank Zappa?"

I was at loss for an answer.

"We would arrange the actual service to be recorded," Tim continued. "So it could be released as an album. Captain Beefheart has also been recommended to me. And there were several other names offered. Where could I get a Frank Zappa album to listen to?"

"At a record store," Jeff said.

"Is Frank Zappa black?"

It is Christmas now, Dick uses the word "scrutinize", which all Zappa fans will have spotted and it was around the time the book came out (1981) that Bob Dylan had approached Zappa to ask him whether he wanted to record one of his more Christian albums. But that might have been one or two years later.