Set in mid-1950s Europe, Philip K. Dick’s fable “The Preserving Machine” describes the pursuits of a scientist named Doc Labyrinth.
While working in his lab, he ponders the possible loss of classical European music should the apocalypse occur. Inspired by a vision of a resilient beetle crawling out of the rubble, he decides to create a “preserving machine” that could encapsulate classical compositions in the bodies of animals. If the beetle is the only thing to rise from the ashes, he thinks, let it carry the world’s greatest symphonies.
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