Reality, as it evolves, sweeps me with it.
I am struck by everything and, although not everything strikes me in the same way, I am always struck by the same basic contradiction: although I can always see how beautiful anything could be if only I could change it, in practically every case there is nothing I can really do.
Everything is changed into something else in my imagination, then the dead weight of things changes it back into what it was in the first place.
A bridge between imagination and reality must be built.
From The Revolution of Everyday Life, Chapter 23 (Self-realisation, Communication and Participation)
Read by Paul Scofield in Robinson in Space (1997) by Patrick Keiller.
That first line and that last line. Perhaps my favourite lines from any film.
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