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SIMON O’SULLIVAN: I’ve got a question for Robin, but I think it might be going to
Mark as well. Robin, one of the things that strikes me, and it’s a bit like what I was saying to Tom, is that one can have the ‘aestheme’, but it’s kind of an evacuation of the human, and yet, whether it’s a story by Ballard or a Smithson, it’s all human. And so that seems to be a real issue, that while aesthemes evacuate the human from these things, yet the human comes in as the person reading the fiction or the person who wrote it…