Science is stagnating, everything that could be rationalized is now rational, and everything we cannot never will be. This is the apocalyptic reality that we and Kelvin begin to realise throughout the rambles of fictional scientific literature in Solaris.

I find myself thinking of the Seventh Seal. A holy crusader finds himself questioning faith; returning to black death era Sweden. How can someone truly believe in god under such circumstances? I imagine Kelvin must have felt like this too, how can someone believe in science and rationality when faced with such insurmountable evidence to the otherwise. Ultimatley Kelvin deviates from our knight, revoking faith in science and god, and reavowing it into the cruel miracles of Solaris.

I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.