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Invisible Literature
Author: Simon Sellars • Feb 9th, 2007 •Category: Ballardosphere, invisible literature
I previously posted about the “Hemingwayesque” Ballard short story, “The Violent Noon”. I subsequently admitted I’d only read Papa’s The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea, and therefore wasn’t really qualified to judge the story’s Hemingwayesque qualities. For this I was taken to task and told to read 49 of Hem’s stories
Well, I’ll try certainly try within the next 10 years. Currently busy working my way through the Los Angeles Yellow Pages, the latest IKEA catalogue, the Operation Paget findings, a research report on outer suburban high-rise housing, a sex manual for incontinents, a few company reports (mainly businesses dealing in storm drains and aluminum cladding for houses) and a report on salinity in the Melbourne wetlands, all in order to understand Ballard more.
That’s the trouble with invisible literature — it never ends. There is no canon.
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Become a trade journalist. We have a permanent pipeline of the stuff. JGB did, after all, edit Chemistry and Industry.
By the way, you should certainly read the First 49 Stories. Now.
and you, sir, should read ‘salinity in melbourne’s wetlands’ — right now! a classic of its type.