It’s a lie. It’s there at the foot of the volcano was the moon landing tests were filmed. Before anyone walked on the moon these pictures foreshadowed us what we would discover later on. They prepare us for the spectacle of desolation. On the moon, there is nothing besides dust. The conquest of space was a dream until now, had become an illusion. We want to enter the unknown when the greatest mysteries are right here. Here under our footsteps. We are on the thresh-hold of another world. Just one small step. We are getting to 1865, at the beginning of chapter 17. It's from here, that we should end up in the center of the earth. The Real Journey was beginning. Terrifying dangers lurk. I had not moved, I had not yet looked down into the bottomless pit which I was about to plunge into. I was the same, a step away. Now the time has come. I land over a projecting rock and look down. My hair stood on end. The fascination of the void took hold of me. I felt my center of gravity moving, and vertigo rising to my head like intoxication. There is nothing more powerful than this attraction of the abyss. Nothing. With the possible exception of the state of weightlessness. For a moment I was afraid that their words might be my own, brought back by an echo. I listen once more, and this time, I clearly heard my name thrown through space
BURBANK, CA. - FEBRUARY 4: Actor Laurence Fishburne plays Enter the Matrix at a screening of “Final Flight of the Osiris”, a CG animated short, and a party to celebrate the debut of the new video game “Enter The Matrix” at Warner Bros. Studios on February 4, 2003 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)