Willy Boy

“It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will”
― Alberto Moravia

“I'm bored, I've eaten everything.”
― J.G. Ballard

“He's not a bad guy. He just didn't get any luck and by the time he figured out what was happening to him it was too late to do anything about it.”
― George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire

“The technological audacity of the Apollo program, with it's largely symbolic payload, was also sinking into the trivialisation that Guy Debord had identified the decade before as the underside of media spectacle. When Commander Alan Shepard strapped a six iron to a lunar excavation tool and whacked two golf balls across the Fra Mauro Highlands, he became, for a spell, nothing more than a tourist, that agent of commodification whose freedom of movement, as Debord had written, is "nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”
― Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies