Maybe Logic Academy :: Luke Rhinehart

Luke Rhinehart is the acclaimed author of eight works of fiction including The Dice Man, The Book of the Die, Whim, Long Voyage Back, Search for the Dice Man, White Wind, Black Rider. Luke has written seven screenplays, most based on his own novels. Luke's books explore Chance and self, illusion and freedom.

Interest in The Dice Man, written more than thirty years ago, has undergone a miraculous rebirth in the last several years and is now at an all-time high. The book has been published or republished in a dozen countries and is now selling more copies throughout the world than at any time before.

London’s Time Out called The Dice Man “The most fashionable novel of the early 1970s,” and in 1995 a BBC production named it “One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century.” In 2000, England's Loaded magazine named The Dice Man "Novel of the Century," but Luke assures us its editors smoked a lot of dope.

A major documentary, 'Diceworld', was made about Luke and the Diceman phenomenon and was shown at the New York Documentary Film Festival and aired in the U.K. in 1999.

For three years 'The Diceman Travel Show' has appeared on the European Discovery Channel. The program is about two Englishmen travelling in Europe and the U.S. who cast a green die to determine where they go and what they do.

In the last several years, three different stage plays either based on The Dice Man or using dicing as the centre of the story have been written and staged. The latest and best, ‘The Dice House', an hilarious comedy by Paul Lucas, has already had four productions in the UK including an eight-week run on London's West End in the spring of 2004. The play was also produced in San Jose in 2003 by the Renegade Theatre.

The Book of the Die is the “bible” of dice-living. It is a collection of essays, proverbs, parables, cartoons, poems, and options for dicing. All are intended to help free humans from patterns which dam our lives – damning being considered undesirable. This is a Book of Wisdom and, as is true of any book of wisdom, contains a lot of bullshit. Not to worry. Luke is merely trying to introduce the human race to an entirely new way of looking at life and society and so shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

The idea of a life lived to the whim of the dice is an attractive, potentially seminal notion.
-- TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The creator of diceliving has launched a psychiatric revolution.
-- LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Inevitably Chance becomes a god and dice a religion. (Diceliving is) an unpleasant notion whose time has come.
- -CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Diceliving is an extreme kind of creative play.
-- VIRGINIAN PILOT

Dicepeople get from (dicing) a tolerably sharp sense of risk, impermanence and variety.
-- NEW YORK TIMES

It is all part of a conjoint project that a number of us are engaged in to render the whole fabric of bourgeois society unworkable . . . in a total and totalizing revolutionary process."
-- DAVID COOPER

"We began using dice to make decisions in our life as a teenager, before we had an idea in our head. So the practice preceded the idea. The ideas that explain why it might be a useful device to bring challenge and risk and variety into one's life came later, as we read widely in psychologies and philosophies that wondered why we humans aren't happier with our lot. We saw that surrendering my "self" to the whims of chance was similar to other "religious" ways of surrendering the self--to God or the Church or the guru. The goal was often the same: to detach oneself from taking seriously the things of this world. The difference was we see the goal as greater enjoyment of the things of this world while some of the religious traditions see earth as a "vale of tears" and want nothing to do with it. A dice person throws him or herself into life with all its risk: the ascetic withdraws into his cave--actual or psychological."

Visit Luke Rhinehart at www.lukerhinehart.net