LETTERS TO THE CYBORGS - THE MOON LANDING, JULY 20, 1969, BY JVB

MOON GRABBER, BY WILLIAM BLAKE

TO YOU CYBORGS, PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE, THIS LETTER IS WRITTEN 44 YEARS AFTER THE MOON LANDING.  WILL NEW ACHIEVEMENTS MEAN ANYTHING, IF YOU LIVE, ESSENTIALLY, FOREVER? WHAT WILL DRIVE YOU, WITHIN, TO DO SOMETHING NEW, AMAZING, AND WONDERFUL? OR WILL EVERYTHING BE PRACTICAL, LOGICAL, AND PLANNED TO THE NTH DEGREE?

HUMAN BEINGS DARED RISK THEIR LIVING FLESH AND THEIR FRAIL BODIES TO ACCOMPLISH GREAT THINGS.

MOON LANDING SOURCE CODE

I PRESENT HERE MY EMOTIONS, FEELINGS, IMPRESSIONS, JOY AND HOPE, AS WRITTEN BY MY HAND IN MY DIARY.

THIS DIARY WAS TORN INTO PIECES BY MY ENEMIES, BUT THESE TEN PAGES, AND A FEW OTHERS, SURVIVED.

THESE DIARY ENTRIES WERE WRITTEN WITH MY BABY IN MY LAP, IN SEMI-DARKNESS, SO THE WRITING WAS DONE WITH A THICK RED PEN SO I COULD SEE WHAT I WAS WRITING.   MY HUSBAND, ROBERT A. BAKER, II, WAS ALSO THERE.  AS WE WATCHED THE MOON LANDING TAKE PLACE, WE WERE LIVING IN SHARPSTOWN, IN COLONIAL ESTATES APARTMENTS, HOUSTON, TEXAS,USA.

AT ONE POINT I CARRIED MY BABY DAUGHTER OUTSIDE TO SHOW HER THE MOON, WHICH WAS SAILING HIGH ABOVE US IN THE DARK SKY, WITH HUMAN BEINGS WALKING ON ITS SURFACE. MAYBE I WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN TOWN WHO WENT OUTSIDE TO LOOK AT THE MOON AT THAT MOMENT, RATHER THAN WATCHING THE TV SCREEN AND ITS PRESENTATION.

                              Armadillo under the Moon   Silkscreen by Judyth Vary Baker

BELOW ARE THE TEN PAGES WRITTEN THAT NIGHT.
YOU WILL BE SUITABLY FITTED TO EXPLORE AT GREAT DISTANCES.
WILL YOU WISH TO DO SO? WILL A LACK OF MATERIALS OR SPACE ON EARTH MAKE YOU THINK OF IT, OR WILL YOU KEEP WITHIN YOURSELVES THAT TASTE AND YEARNING FOR HIGH ADVENTURE AND MORE KNOWLEDGE THAT MADE HUMAN BEINGS THE (SOMETIMES CRUEL AND RUTHLESS) MASTERS OF ALL THEY SURVEYED?

                                                            SUNSET ON MARS

THE FIRST PAGE I WROTE, AT THE TOP, ALSO MENTIONS THE VIETNAM WAR.
DO YOU STILL HAVE WARS? IF YOU CAN'T DIE, HOW DO YOU REFORM AND IMPROVE YOUR STYLE OF EXISTENCE? HOW DO YOU IF YOU ARE WELL OFF?  ARE YOU PROGRAMMED SO COMPLETELY THAT YOU CANNOT COMPLAIN?  CAN YOU MAKE CHANGES AT THE TOP, WITHOUT THE FEAR AND SACRIFICES THAT CREATES?  DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT SOME THINGS ARE WORTH DYING FOR. OR HAS THAT BEEN BRED OUT OF YOU, ALONG WITH MORTALITY?

COVERED WORD IS 'PICTURES'

MY QUESTION: WHAT WILL YOU DO, YOU WHO HAVE EMERGED FROM WHAT WE WERE?  WILL YOU FEEL JOY?  HOW DEEPLY PROGRAMMED ARE YOUR BRAINS? WILL YOU THINK OF US AS MERE PIECES OF MEAT THAT YOU HAVE RISEN ABOVE? WE STARTED REPLACING PARTS OF OUR BODIES, GROWING NEW PARTS, EVEN CREATING NEW NERVES. FINALLY, WE COULD, BY THOUGHT ALONE, GET A PROSTHETIC LIMB ----ATTACHED TO A STUMP WHERE ONCE AN ARM EXISTED -- TO MOVE.  OUR GREAT PHYSICIST, HAWKING, NOTES THAT WE ARE NOW CHOOSING HOW WE WILL EVOLVE, BY REDESIGNING OUR DNA.
THAT CONCERNS ME DEEPLY.
HAVE YOU BEEN ALLOWED TO FEEL CONCERNS?
HAVE YOU BEEN LIBERATED, OR ENSLAVED?
KNOWING THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE, I WONDER. JVB

AUTHOR OF:
 ME & LEE
DAVIF FERRIE, MAFIA PILOT