Comments on: Collecting "The Violent Noon" and other assorted Ballardiana http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TimC http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/comment-page-1#comment-644 TimC Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:04:48 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/#comment-644 I've heard 'Hemingwayesque' defined as any story that starts: 'It was hot.' What do we have here? 'Rank and turgid, the morning sweltered in the sunlight.' The sentiment's there, if not the pared-down language. Hargreaves' comment on the economic foundations of empire is interesting - compare with Ballard's comments in the 'rattling cages' interview here: "The British Empire was lost a long time ago, and most British people didn’t benefit directly from Empire. In fact, there are economic historians who claim we made a loss from the British Empire — that it cost more than we gained from it." I’ve heard ‘Hemingwayesque’ defined as any story that starts: ‘It was hot.’

What do we have here? ‘Rank and turgid, the morning sweltered in the sunlight.’ The sentiment’s there, if not the pared-down language.

Hargreaves’ comment on the economic foundations of empire is interesting – compare with Ballard’s comments in the ‘rattling cages’ interview here: “The British Empire was lost a long time ago, and most British people didn’t benefit directly from Empire. In fact, there are economic historians who claim we made a loss from the British Empire — that it cost more than we gained from it.”

]]> By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/comment-page-1#comment-643 Simon Sellars Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:06:14 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/#comment-643 eh? i don't know what's going on -- it appears to work for me. but try rick's link. he says he's uploaded a high-res version now. eh? i don’t know what’s going on — it appears to work for me. but try rick’s link. he says he’s uploaded a high-res version now.

]]> By: Tim Chapman http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/comment-page-1#comment-642 Tim Chapman Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:08:20 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/#comment-642 It's four pages of apparent blankness for me too. Should I hold my screen over a flame, or rub on lemon juice? It’s four pages of apparent blankness for me too. Should I hold my screen over a flame, or rub on lemon juice?

]]> By: Rick McGrath http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/comment-page-1#comment-641 Rick McGrath Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:20:48 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/#comment-641 Your PDF link to the "better" version doesn't work for me... just my computer? Your PDF link to the “better” version doesn’t work for me… just my computer?

]]> By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/comment-page-1#comment-640 Simon Sellars Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:28:28 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/#comment-640 We've located the original, pre-Wikipedia reference: David Pringle's interview with Ballard, 'From Shanghai to Shepperton', published in RE/Search no. 8/9, 1984: " 'The Violent Noon' ... was done as almost a pastiche of a certain kind of Hemingwayesque short story. It certainly wasn't typical of the other material I was writing at the time. I wanted to win the competition, actually: that was my intention, but I knew that I wouldn't win unless I wrote a story of that kind." I haven't read the RE/Search volume in years, so the reference completely eluded me this time around. We’ve located the original, pre-Wikipedia reference: David Pringle’s interview with Ballard, ‘From Shanghai to Shepperton’, published in RE/Search no. 8/9, 1984:

” ‘The Violent Noon’ … was done as almost a pastiche of a certain kind of Hemingwayesque short story. It certainly wasn’t typical of the other material I was writing at the time. I wanted to win the competition, actually: that was my intention, but I knew that I wouldn’t win unless I wrote a story of that kind.”

I haven’t read the RE/Search volume in years, so the reference completely eluded me this time around.

]]> By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/comment-page-1#comment-639 Simon Sellars Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:29:46 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/#comment-639 yeah, i covered that one in the post with a link to wikipedia, which claims "violent noon" is a "hemingwayesque pastiche". i guess there are similar themes to papa: warfare, loss, death, disillusionment etc... yeah, i covered that one in the post with a link to wikipedia, which claims “violent noon” is a “hemingwayesque pastiche”. i guess there are similar themes to papa: warfare, loss, death, disillusionment etc…

]]> By: johnny http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/comment-page-1#comment-638 johnny Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:36:58 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/collecting-the-violent-noon-and-other-assorted-ballardiana/#comment-638 I read somewhere that The Violent Noon was a Hemingway pastiche, and I know he loves Papa's early stories. I read somewhere that The Violent Noon was a Hemingway pastiche, and I know he loves Papa’s early stories.

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