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Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. On June 30, 1908, Moscow escaped destruction by three hours and four thousand kilometers — a margin invisibly small by the standards of the universe. On February 12, 1947, another Russian city had a still narrower escape, when the second great meteorite of the twentieth century detonated… Read more
“We’re looking at the situation where bourgeois society is controlling everything, without exception. One looks at certain publications [that] interview young designers, artists, photographers. It asks them what they want and they say money and fame. Someone of 19 who can only sump up his own ambition in terms of money and fame — for god’s sake that’s the end, that’s the death of the spirit.”
J. G. Ballard