Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
“There will be extraordinary unpredictable outbursts, a sort of volatility, largely driven by extremist cults of one sort or another… That’s what we have to look forward to — that, plus the Internet and Virtual Reality. People will retreat into these electronic hideaways.”
J. G. Ballard