'Confronting Ourselves': Ballard and Circular Time

Solaris (last scene) (1972), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

‘”We do not move in one direction, rather do we wander back and forth, turning now this way and now that. We go back on our own tracks…” That thought of Montaigne’s reminds me about something I thought of in connection with flying saucers, humanoids, and the remains of unbelievably advanced technology found in some ancient ruins. They write about aliens, but I th...