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'what Was Being On The Moon Literally Like?' [. . .] 'being On The Moon?' His Tired Gaze Inspected The Narrow Street Of Cheap Jewellery Stores, With Its Office Messengers And Lottery Touts, The Off-duty Taxi-drivers Leaning Against Their Cars. 'it Was Just Like Being Here.'

Human Beings Today Are Surrounded By Huge Institutions We Can Never Penetrate: The City, The Banking System, Political And Advertising Conglomerates, Vast Entertainment Enterprises. They've Made Themselves User Friendly, But They Define The Tastes To Which We Conform. They're Rather Subtle, Subservient Tyrants, But No Less Sinister For That.

We Live In A World Ruled By Fictions Of Every Kind - Mass Merchandising, Advertising, Politics Conducted As A Branch Of Advertising, The Instant Translation Of Science And Technology Into Popular Imagery, The Increasing Blurring And Intermingling Of Identities Within The Realm Of Consumer Goods, The Preempting Of Any Free Or Original Imaginative Response To Experience By The Television Screen. We Live Inside An Enormous Novel.

E. Klimov's 'come And See,' About Partisans Fighting The Germans In Byelorussia, Is The Greatest Anti-war Film Ever Made.

Art Exists Because Reality Is Neither Real Nor Significant.