The Dice Man

The dicer is a novel by George Cockcroft was published in 1971 under the pen name Luke Rhinehart.

Content

The book told in the first-person perspective, the story of the psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart. The 32 -year-old Rhinehart is bored with his life as a father and a therapist and begin to make decisions based on a cube. What was meant as an occasional loosening, takes possession of Rhinehart, of all life decisions the cube leaves after a short time.

First he leaves the cube only the decision about everyday things like the forms of treatment of his patients or the organization of his private life.

In the further course of action Rhinehart worked out the theory that each person has multiple personalities that he can discover and live by means of the cube. The result of these considerations is the so-called cube therapy. Rhinehart breaks completely in the wake of his professional and private life and is totally dedicated to the dissemination of his theory, which he can make his decisions exclusively through the cube.

Quickly, a cult of the cube theory developed. Through the social impact Rhinehart is declared the enemy of the state and as a result constantly on the run. The cube theory spreads as a way of life / religion -like cult and on. The personal fate of Rhinehart's remains open. The plot is taken up with a large time interval in the book The Son of Würflers again with the then grown-up son of Würflers becoming the despisers of anarchy cubes teaching of his father

Pop Culture References Elle

  • The play The Dice Man of the English rock band The Fall on the LP Dragnet (1979).
  • The song Random I Am the band Millencolin tells of the influence of the cube theory.
  • Aphex Twin has the name of The Dice Man occasionally used as an alias.
  • The Discovery Channel series The Diceman (1997), in which the protagonists were followed in a sort of reality TV format the decisions of a cube from episode to episode.
  • The Canadian / British TV miniseries Dice ( 2001) is based on the cube theory.
  • In the film Four Rooms Quentin Tarantino, on the last episode the main character Diceman, as this represents the random factor in a bet.
  • The band Talk Talk could be one inspiration for her song a shame of The Dice.

Text output

Literally, published by

  • Ullsteinhaus Publishing 2001, ISBN 354824646X
  • Means German Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-89812-632-8
Cult (religious practice) The Fall (band)
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