Strong opinions

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Answer cabled July 3, 1969, to Thomas Hamilton, who had asked me, for publication in The New York Times, what the moon landing means to me. Published *** 1969, with a disastrous misprint in the seventh word.

«TREADING THE SOIL OF THE MOON PALPATING ITS PEBBLES TASTING THE PANIC AND SPLENDOR OF THE EVENT FEELING IN THE PIT OF ONES STOMACH THE SEPARATION^ FROM TERRA THESE FORM THE MOST ROMANTIC SENSATION AN EXPLORER HAS EVER KNOWN»