The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.
J.G. BallardYes, we gave her drugs - we wanted to free her from those sinister clinics up in the hills, from those men in white coats who know best. Bibi needed to soar over our heads, dreaming her amphetamine dreams, coming off the beach in the evening and leading everyone into the cocaine night.
J.G. BallardPut a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
J.G. BallardTags: realism
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
J.G. BallardAlready a sizable traffic jam blocked the Bund. Once again the crush and clutter of Shanghai had engulfed its invaders.
J.G. BallardThis isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like..."
"A religious experience?"
"Exactly! It's like going to church...
After Freud's exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised
J.G. BallardEven their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.
J.G. BallardTags: education children exploitation culture defeat domination submission
The Chinese enjoyed the grim spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking that the world was anything else.
J.G. BallardAfter a few minutes Jim was forced to admit that he could recognize none of the constellations. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change. For all their movements, the Japanese aircraft were its only fixed points, a second zodiac above the broken land.
J.G. BallardTags: war world-war-two constellations aircraft state-of-change
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