Bad art is always depressing :(
Edit: I mean, I am an artist and I've been using AI for some ideas and maybe from one in a hundred tries I hit something almost good. The rest of the time it's the same shallow fantastically cheese type of variations.
This! I know for a fact that my cat changes sleeping places if he detects fleas and will not move back to the old spot for a couple of weeks. Flea management from a cat perspective.
Philip K. Dick is having a little fun with a badly written paperback story or novel he must have found somewhere, and writing a cool science fiction story out of it. It is humor.
From the preface: "A little whimsy, now and then, makes for good balance. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way…."
This is interesting, they were using bast fibers from oak trees, or fibers that sit between the bark and wood of the tree. They are soft fibers that can be collected and weaved into cloth.
Wikipedia has an article (1) and pictures of modern bast fiber weaving in Norway.
Great work, I greatly admire Klimt's art and these paintings were such an important part of his artistic development and so sad they were destroyed on purpose so the other side wouldn't have them.
That website is a pain to read on a desktop computer thou... maybe ok on mobile?