Comments on: Strange Fiction http://www.ballardian.com/strange-fiction Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:27:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anthony Osborne http://www.ballardian.com/strange-fiction/comment-page-1#comment-2031 Anthony Osborne Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:05:35 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/strange-fiction#comment-2031 Yes, I'm a Guardian reader myself ... there's the (roughly speaking)Guardian part of my brain and the Ballardian (Ballardian/Burroughsian/Joycean etc.) part and rarely shall the twain meet. Yes, I’m a Guardian reader myself … there’s the (roughly speaking)Guardian part of my brain and the Ballardian (Ballardian/Burroughsian/Joycean etc.) part and rarely shall the twain meet.

]]> By: ian parkinson http://www.ballardian.com/strange-fiction/comment-page-1#comment-2029 ian parkinson Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:10:44 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/strange-fiction#comment-2029 I buy the Guardian every saturday (pretty much only for the TV guide) so I was pleasantly surprised to see JGB was the centrefold in the 'arts' section. I doubt any visitor to this site will learn anything about Ballard from the guardian, Anthony. Having said that, I did learn two things: I didn't know JGB had a Delvaux in his living room as well as his back room; and I didn't know he drove a Ford Granada! I buy the Guardian every saturday (pretty much only for the TV guide) so I was pleasantly surprised to see JGB was the centrefold in the ‘arts’ section.

I doubt any visitor to this site will learn anything about Ballard from the guardian, Anthony. Having said that, I did learn two things: I didn’t know JGB had a Delvaux in his living room as well as his back room; and I didn’t know he drove a Ford Granada!

]]> By: Anthony Osborne http://www.ballardian.com/strange-fiction/comment-page-1#comment-2030 Anthony Osborne Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:16:14 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/strange-fiction#comment-2030 The good folks at The Guardian, bless them, never did get to grips with Ballard and his work; he doesn't tick any of their boxes. Isn't Ian McEwan their idea of a dangerous writer? Ballard, like Burroughs, represents the complete antithesis to the literary liberals. The good folks at The Guardian, bless them, never did get to grips with Ballard and his work; he doesn’t tick any of their boxes.
Isn’t Ian McEwan their idea of a dangerous writer? Ballard, like Burroughs, represents the complete antithesis to the literary liberals.

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