Quotation of Mars

This is a quotaion taken from Douglas Coupland's latest book, Microserfs. Douglas Coupland is a brilliant American writer who writes about youths and young adults and the world they live in. He has written the highly acclaimed novels Shampoo Planet, Life after God and Generation X. Malls, trade marks and the mythological year 1974 (when the purchasing power of the average American, according to Coupland, stopped increasing) plays important roles in his books. The excerpt below has been translated back to English by me, and is hence messed up beyond all recognition. Do you now where I can find the original "version", please mail me!

In Florida the wind makes the bells ring
You look out over the alligators
and the sea weed and the water. There they are:
The burn-marks from the rocket. The best century ever.
We were here. But now it is time to go"

(To an article on Microserfs published in Svenska Dagbladet. An earlier short story version of the novel was published in Wired. There is also an unofficial Coupland homepage and an official, bandwidth demanding, homepage at the obvious and impressive location http://www.coupland.com/.)

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