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Drunk, and lying outside on the lawn-
Dave the Moonman
He’d look up at the blurred stars, as the dew on the grass soaked through the
back of his jacket and the back of his trousers, and then he’d look towards the
moon. All that distance from the surface he was pinned down on to the surface
glowing in the darkness, with nothing but space all the way in between.
Nothing to hold onto. And yet, someone had managed to get there.
Someone had managed to do that. A truly impossible thing. So he’d get up out
of the grass, light-hearted again. It made everything else possible.
Anything you could think of, anything you were stuck with, it could be done.
Because that had been done. Someone had got up and gone to the moon.
And nothing else was more impossible than that
Dave the Moonman
But sober and playing around on the internet he started to find bits and pieces,
Dave the Moonman. Things about the Van-Allen Belt, and about Kodak film and
dual light sources. And he talked to people who knew about similar stuff,
and he read bits in magazines and books
The first time I met him was at a party. He was surrounded by a group of people
and he was giving short lectures about all the stuff he had learned,
going round the party one group at a time with all the energy of someone
newly-born to a religion. You had to wait your turn if you wanted him to tell
you about it, so I waited my turn
The first thing was the Van-Allen Belt, he said; an outer layer of the
atmosphere that all the shuttle flights stay inside, that protects the earth
from radiation. He raid somewhere that if the astronauts had really gone beyond
that, and gone all the way to the moon, the radiation would have killed them
soon afterwards. Then there were the photographs of the astronauts walking on
the moon. He said you could tell from the shadows that the light sources were
all wrong, which suggested studio lighting. And there was something about the
photograph of the footprint too. If a moon boot could leave such a deep
impression on the surface of the moon, then the thrust of the rocket when it
was landing should have forced two big mounds up on either side of the rocket.
But there are none in the pictures
There was a whole load of stuff. A whole load of stuff more than that.
And so he was coming to believe it was a hoax, and that no-one had ever been
to the moon
I thought he had a mission, Dave the Moonman, to prove to everyone that no-one
had ever landed on the moon. But that wasn’t it at all. He was telling everyone
all this stuff he’d learned cause he was hoping someone could prove to him it
was wrong, and it wasn’t just a hoax. Cause dreaming was so much harder
otherwise. And it was so much harder to find the belief to get things done-
lying out on the lawn at night, drunk, with the dew soaking through the back of
your jacket. And all that distance between here and there. And he really wanted
to believe that people had travelled to the moon in that crazy rocket,
that looked as if it was made out of tin-foil and cardboard. He really wanted
to believe that they’d managed to get it there, just by strapping enough fuel
on, even though today you probably wouldn’t trust it to get you down the shops
Dave the Moonman…
Traduction des paroles
photographie de l'empreinte de trop. Si une botte de lune pouvait laisser une telle profondeur
impression sur la surface de la lune, puis la poussée de la fusée quand il
l'atterrissage aurait dû forcer deux gros monticules de chaque côté de la fusée.
Mais il n'en existe pas dans les photos
Il y avait un tas de trucs. Un tas de trucs plus que cela.
Et alors il venait à croire que c'était un canular, et que personne n'avait jamais été
pour la lune
Je pensais qu'il avait une mission, Dave le Moonman, pour prouver à tout le monde que personne
avait déjà atterri sur la Lune. Mais ce n'était pas du tout. Il le disait à tout le monde
tout ce qu'il avait appris parce qu'il espérait que quelqu'un pourrait le lui prouver
c'était faux, et ce n'était pas qu'un canular. Parce que rêver était tellement plus difficile
autrement. Et il était tellement plus difficile de trouver la croyance pour faire avancer les choses-
allongé sur la pelouse la nuit, ivre, avec la rosée trempant à travers le dos de
votre veste. Et toute cette distance entre ici et là. Et il voulait vraiment
croire que les gens avaient voyagé sur la Lune dans cette fusée folle,
cela semblait être fait de papier d'aluminium et de carton. Il voulait vraiment
pour croire qu'ils avaient réussi à l'obtenir là-bas, juste en cerclant assez de carburant
sur, même si aujourd'hui, vous ne feriez probablement pas confiance pour vous faire descendre les magasins
Dave le Moonman…