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"...in every intoxication was some kind of price. Otherwise, nothing divine to economy"

'So they slouched in alone into the automatic vending machine room, deposited their dimes and quarters with all the small libidinal benefits which accrue from small insertions, and rose thoughtfully in the elevator back to their office and the hot can of lamb stew.'

'No one quite heard him say "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind", nor did anyone quite see him take the step - the TV image on the movie screen was beautiful, but still as marvellously abstract as the branches of a tree, or a painting by Franz Kilne of black beams on a white background. Nonetheless, a cheer went up, and a ripple of extraordinary awareness."

"he hardly knew whether the Space Program was the noblest expression of the Twentieth Century or the quintessential statement of our fundamental insanity"