'The absolute majority of people on this earth are walking dead' — Vladimir Sorokin

The quotation above is from Sorokin's new book, "Ice."

Ken Kalfus reviewed it in yesterday's New York Times Book Review.

The full passage: "The absolute majority of people on this earth are walking dead. They are born dead, they marry the dead, they give birth to the dead and die; their dead children give birth to new dead — and so on, from century to century."

Somewhere Philip K. Dick is smiling.