What truly interested him was everything that concerns the authentic appropriation of space and of celestial bodies, that is to say, knowledge: a way out from our limited and certainly misleading framework, the definition of a relationship between ourselves and the extrahuman universe. Since antiquity, the moon has represented for mankind this desire, and this explains the devotion poets have for her. But does the poets' moon have anything to do with the lactiferous and porous images that are being transmitted today by spaceships? Perhaps not yet; but the fact that we are compelled to<I> rethink  </I> the moon in a new way will cause us to rethink so many other things as well. He concluded by stating that those who truly love the moon want to enter into a closer relationship with her; to map every inch of her, cover every porous surface, to know, to dominate her, a desire that seeks to crush, smother, completely consume.