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BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'J. G. BALLARD: QUOTES'
Aiming for Life's Jugular in Deadly Verbal Darts
By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH
J. G. BALLARD
Quotes
Edited by V. Vale and Mike Ryan
Illustrated. 414 pages. RE/Search. $19.99.

"A good 25 years ago the entertainer Tiny Tim told a reporter that he believed everything he read in the supermarket tabloids, because eventually it would all happen. In 1987 the British writer J. G. Ballard declared, 'Sooner or later all Science Fiction comes true.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/01/books/01stra.html?pagewanted=print&position=

Date: 2004-11-30 10:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] supergee.livejournal.com
414 pages of Ballard quotes seems a bit much; does it come with a razor blade to slash your wrists if you make it all the way through?

I believe...

Date: 2004-12-01 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lsanderson.livejournal.com
As in much of life, if the wit won't do, the razor blades are extra.

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