...they are about ideas, projects,

beliefs that exist in a twilight zone between common

sense and lunacy, truth and error, visionary

intelligence and what now seems to us stupidity,

though it was not stupid in its day and we must

therefore reconsider it with great respect.

eccentric :

(adj) Not placed centrally or not having its axis or other part placed centrally, (of an orbit) not circular

(noun) A person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour

While men of reason and wisdom see only fragmentary figures that are all the more frightening for their incompleteness, the madman sees a whole, unbroken sphere.

R-SAT is the solidification of the past and present. The colliding elements of time trigger equivocal readings. The city produces changes in perception and distortions in space and time. The inhabitant decodes the satellite as experience in multiple ways, this enables him to feel bigger and mobile.

Tout cela ils avaient l'impression de l'avoir déja vécu. Et leurs paroles semblaient s'immobiliser dans les traces d'autres paroles d'autrefois. Ils ne faisaient pas attention à ce qu'ils faisaient. Mais bien à la difference qui voulait que leurs actes de maintenant fussent du présent. Et que des actes analogues eussent été du passé. Ils se sentaient grands, immobiles. Avec au-dessus d'eux le passé et le présent comme les vagues identiques d'un même océan.