interesting.
Faber & Faber : The New York Trilogy Reissue Part of a series of F&F paperbacks redesigned to reflect the era they debuted.
Roger and Russ
Each canister holds the remains of a human being, of course; each canister holds a corpse – reduced to dust, certainly, burnt to handfuls of ash, sharing that cindered condition with much of the star-bleached universe, but still cadaverous, still human. What strange chemistries we see emerging here between man and metal. Because these were people; they had identities and family histories, long before they became nameless patients, encased in metal, catalytic.
See figure 1.



