The Man in the High Castle

by

Philip K. Dick

Paul is a young, graceful, successful Japanese bureaucrat who is married to Betty. Paul is highly educated—he reads and listens to a vast variety of music—and is fascinated by U.S. culture from before the war. Though he does so with tact, Paul’s suggestion that Childan mass-produce the Edfrank pieces is (at least to Childan) his way of suggesting that Americans can no longer make true art. However, Paul takes a more complex view of the world than many other characters in the novel; he is simultaneously disdainful of Childan and deeply moved by the art Childan sells, and he seems to want Childan to take some sort of pride in American craftsmanship.

Paul Kasoura Quotes in The Man in the High Castle

The The Man in the High Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Paul Kasoura or refer to Paul Kasoura. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes

Childan nodded. No contemporary American art; only the past could be represented here, in a store such as his.

Related Characters: Robert Childan (speaker), Paul Kasoura, Betty Kasoura
Page Number: 3
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Chapter 7 Quotes

[Childan] thought, Here I am, not invited in a business context, but a dinner guest. He had of course taken special pains with his attire; at least he could be confident of his appearance. My appearance, he thought. Yes, that is it. How do I appear? There is no deceiving anyone; I do not belong here. On this land that white men cleared and built one of their finest cities. I am an outsider in my own country.

Related Characters: Robert Childan (speaker), Paul Kasoura, Betty Kasoura
Page Number: 109
Explanation and Analysis:

I did it again, Robert Childan informed himself. Impossible to avoid the topic. Because it’s everywhere, in a book I happen to pick up or a record collection, in these bone napkin rings—loot piled up by the conquerors. Pillage from my people.

Related Characters: Robert Childan (speaker), Paul Kasoura, Betty Kasoura
Page Number: 115
Explanation and Analysis:

“Thank you,” [Betty] said, obviously pleased. “Doing my best to be authentic . . . for instance, carefully shopping in teeny-tiny American markets down along Mission Street. Understand that’s the real McCoy.”

You cook the native foods to perfection, Robert Childan thought. What they say is true: your powers of imitation are immense. Apple pie, Coca-Cola, stroll after the movie, Glenn Miller . . . you could paste together out of tin and rice paper a complete artificial America. Rice-paper Mom in the kitchen, rice-paper Dad reading the newspaper. Rice-paper pup at his feet. Everything.

Related Characters: Robert Childan (speaker), Paul Kasoura, Betty Kasoura
Page Number: 118
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Chapter 11 Quotes

Life is short, [Childan] thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.

Related Characters: Robert Childan (speaker), Paul Kasoura
Related Symbols: Plastic, Colt .44
Page Number: 194
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Paul Kasoura Quotes in The Man in the High Castle

The The Man in the High Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Paul Kasoura or refer to Paul Kasoura. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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).
Chapter 1 Quotes

Childan nodded. No contemporary American art; only the past could be represented here, in a store such as his.

Related Characters: Robert Childan (speaker), Paul Kasoura, Betty Kasoura
Page Number: 3
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 7 Quotes

[Childan] thought, Here I am, not invited in a business context, but a dinner guest. He had of course taken special pains with his attire; at least he could be confident of his appearance. My appearance, he thought. Yes, that is it. How do I appear? There is no deceiving anyone; I do not belong here. On this land that white men cleared and built one of their finest cities. I am an outsider in my own country.

Related Characters: Robert Childan (speaker), Paul Kasoura, Betty Kasoura
Page Number: 109
Explanation and Analysis:

I did it again, Robert Childan informed himself. Impossible to avoid the topic. Because it’s everywhere, in a book I happen to pick up or a record collection, in these bone napkin rings—loot piled up by the conquerors. Pillage from my people.

Related Characters: Robert Childan (speaker), Paul Kasoura, Betty Kasoura
Page Number: 115
Explanation and Analysis:

“Thank you,” [Betty] said, obviously pleased. “Doing my best to be authentic . . . for instance, carefully shopping in teeny-tiny American markets down along Mission Street. Understand that’s the real McCoy.”

You cook the native foods to perfection, Robert Childan thought. What they say is true: your powers of imitation are immense. Apple pie, Coca-Cola, stroll after the movie, Glenn Miller . . . you could paste together out of tin and rice paper a complete artificial America. Rice-paper Mom in the kitchen, rice-paper Dad reading the newspaper. Rice-paper pup at his feet. Everything.

Related Characters: Robert Childan (speaker), Paul Kasoura, Betty Kasoura
Page Number: 118
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 11 Quotes

Life is short, [Childan] thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.

Related Characters: Robert Childan (speaker), Paul Kasoura
Related Symbols: Plastic, Colt .44
Page Number: 194
Explanation and Analysis: