I am convinced that the future is lost somewhere in the dumps of non-historical past; it is in yesterday's newspapers, in the jejune advertisements of science-fiction movies, in the false mirror of our rejected dreams. Time turns metaphors into things, and stacks them up in cold rooms, or places them in the celestial playgrounds of the suburbs.

Robert Smithson, 'A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey' in The Writings of Robert Smithson (New York University Press, 1979) p. 56