djinoz on Nostr: It seemed like Ballard wanted to write a love letter to William S Burroughs. ...
It seemed like Ballard wanted to write a love letter to William S Burroughs. Fetishise objects (cars, chrome, concrete etc - i.e art of Jeffrey Smart) and mash them with primal drives (sex, death, voyeurism etc). Top shelf prose but overstayed its welcome for me.
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