Comments on: 'Seeing everything makes you sad'

By: J.G. Ballard dies at the age of 78 - The Afterword

J.G. Ballard dies at the age of 78 - The Afterword — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:55:06 +0000

[...] short stories. His last novel was Kingdom Come by 2006. "I’m very inspired by beauty," he said in a 2007 interview. "I’m not a pessimist. I see my books as warnings. I’m the man who stands on the side of [...]

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:16:44 +0000

Kung Fu? The TV show?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:24:57 +0000

I find it so wierd to read about Shanghai being the global ‘it’ town at the moment. I found it equally strange when I got here and discoverd all it’s wild history and areas.

I came here in 2001 with no knowledge of it at all. I was actually going back to Japan with my job at the time, at Shane. I was making preparaions and they asked me to go to Shanghai as they had new schools there and ‘proper’ teachers still mainly thought China was dangerous or whatever.

I made the decision based on liking Kung Fu, finally.

Now I’m 6 years in the middle of this wonderful nuthouse mix of two golden ages – the pre WW2 and the post ‘89.

I think it’s missing the violence from the Ballardian visions – but I’m not complaining while it lasts.