Comments on: A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996) http://www.ballardian.com/biblio-a-users-guide-to-the-millennium Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/biblio-a-users-guide-to-the-millennium/comment-page-1#comment-11419 Simon Sellars Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:17:26 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/biblio-users-guide/#comment-11419 'He is mystifyingly rhapsodic over Dali, surely the most overrated artist of the century. (What, one wonders, would Ballard make of the comment that Dali is the 'kind of artist you think is brilliant when you're 15'? Are you listening Damien Hirst?)' You wouldn't call a line like that 'acerbic'? The 'typically' was reserved for Gerald Houghton; poor word order on my part. ‘He is mystifyingly rhapsodic over Dali, surely the most overrated artist of the century. (What, one wonders, would Ballard make of the comment that Dali is the ‘kind of artist you think is brilliant when you’re 15′? Are you listening Damien Hirst?)’

You wouldn’t call a line like that ‘acerbic’?

The ‘typically’ was reserved for Gerald Houghton; poor word order on my part.

]]> By: David Clark http://www.ballardian.com/biblio-a-users-guide-to-the-millennium/comment-page-1#comment-11414 David Clark Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:42:35 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/biblio-users-guide/#comment-11414 Thanks for the mention, but actually that review is at http://www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk/booksnonf/usersguidetothemillennium.htm Don't see what's 'typically acerbic' about it, myself... Thanks for the mention, but actually that review is at

http://www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk/booksnonf/usersguidetothemillennium.htm

Don’t see what’s ‘typically acerbic’ about it, myself…

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