“Viewers of television, for instance, aren't aware of their own physical vulnerabilities. They get used, manipulated by images of depersonalized sex.”

—  Vanna Bonta, book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 32

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Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice art… 1958–2014

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