I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds. - J. G. Ballard

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

The core identity is Traven, a name taken consciously from B. Traven, a writer I've always admired for his extreme reclusiveness — so completely at odds with the logic of our own age, when even the concept of privacy is constructed from publicly circulating materials. It is now almost impossible to be ourselves except on the world's terms.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.