'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . . ] 'Being on the moon?' His tired … - J. G. Ballard

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What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

J. G. Ballard

'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. '

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