Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
Anthony BurgessTags: writing literature science-fiction burgess j-g-ballard
They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.
J.G. BallardTags: living dissapointment self-sufficiency j-g-ballard acquaintances ballard high-rise james-graham-ballard jg-ballard
However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner when they reached the roof, he reflected with a touch of gallows-humour, but the poodle would be in the pot.
J.G. BallardTags: dogs dark-humor dog dinner j-g-ballard ballard high-rise james-graham-ballard jg-ballard dark-humour
First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.
J.G. BallardTags: paradox murder marriage relationships husband wife j-g-ballard ballard james-graham-ballard jg-ballard
He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs.
"One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".
Tags: life dogs madness dog dinner smell j-g-ballard taboo ballard dog-meat james-graham-ballard jg-ballard garlic
I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his book Crash and then mowed him down with their Volkswagen, crushing his chest slowly against a brick wall. As he screamed in agony larger than representation can accommodate, they referred to his text and had orgasms. Later, they jumped up and down yelling, ‘You’re not a hero. You’re not a hero. You’re not. You’re not. You’re not.’ “
“How do you analyze that part of the dream, Anna?”
…”I guess I’m nervous about my birthday.
Tags: dreams psychoanalysis sexism j-g-ballard bohemianism william-burroughs
And when a futurist dies, the tragedy is that we lose access to all the possible futures they imagined for us. Our only connection, afterward, is through the arcane procedure like literary interpretation, like reading the flight of birds or throwing the I Ching, as Ballard must have as a child in Shanghai. Like it or not, we live in one of Ballard’s futures; a little apocalyptic, bent by technology.
William BallTags: j-g-ballard
Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids from your hands, roses from your breasts. You can have magnolias in your hair...!'
'And in my heart?'
'In your womb I'll set a fly-trap!
Tags: sex flowers j-g-ballard unlimited-dream-company
Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.
J.G. BallardTags: truth lies j-g-ballard kingdom-come ballard
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