Ocupation: Novelist
Life: December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982
Birthday: December 16
Death: March 2
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.
source: Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
topic: Real, War, Ideas, World War Two