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Substance D (also called Death, Slow Death, D) is a fictional recreational drug used by characters in the Philip K. Dick novel, A Scanner Darkly. All throughout the novel, it is shown that long-term use of Substance D causes the two cerebral hemispheres of the brain to separate. "Death" also inhibits the ability of the two halves of the brain to 'communicate' with each other. This splitting of the brain (literally, right down the middle) ultimately causes a form of drug-induced Dissociative identity disorder (DID). The main character in the novel, Robert Arctor (played by Keanu Reeves in the 2006 film), had his mind divided into one side that became "Bob Arctor" and the other side that became Fred (his identity as an undercover narc.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

At the wheel of his slow car, Bob Arctor forgot theoretical matters and did a rerun of a moment that had impressed them all: the dainty and elegant straight girl in her turtleneck sweater and bell-bottoms and trippy boobs who wanted them to murder a great harmless bug that in fact did good by wiping out mosquitoes – and in a year in which an outbreak of encephalitis had been anticipated in Orange County – and when they saw what it was and explained, she had said words that became for them their parody evil-wall-motto, to be feared and despised: IF I HAD KNOWN IT WAS HARMLESS I WOULD HAVE KILLED IT MYSELF.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Another great illustration from the renowned artist Paul Cemmick's Crazy Quotes Collection

Another great illustration from the renowned artist Paul Cemmick's Crazy Quotes Collection

Salvation comes at the touch of a needle.

A logo for the drug Substance D, featured in A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick.