in a conversation in 1974 , dick told me , `` well , the idea of a single protagonist , i never could understand that too well ... ... what i 've felt is that problems are multipersonal , they involve us all , there 's no such thing as a private problem ... ... ... it 's only a form of ignorance , when i wake up in the morning , and i fall over the chair and break my nose , and i 'm broke , and my wife 's left me - it 's my ignorance that makes me think i 'm an entire universe and that these miseries are my own and they 're not affecting the rest of the world .