The Drowned City
Author: Chris Nakashima-Brown • Aug 31st, 2005 •Category: Ballardosphere, urban decay, urban revolt
This one has it all — submerged flyovers, apartment dwellers fighting their way to the top floors, oil tankers deposited miles inland like drowned giants, refugee colonies in the 1970s sports arena, urban citizens reduced to Hobbesian looters overnight — too bad it’s nonfiction.
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For a brief, heartstopping moment I thought this was real; I didn’t pay attention to your ‘nonfiction’ statement, and had my mind on many other distractions, so when I clicked onto it and went to the site I thought it was it the real deal.
Chris, I really thought we were all going to hell and that the end of the world was nigh…
Great Scott, am I ever confused! not only did you warn me that it is ‘nonfiction’ in your post but I read that to mean it’s ‘fiction’!
I seriously thought this was an Onion-type mockumentary style pisstake. It really reads like one…and I haven’t been keeping up with the news. And I live in Australia. And I’ve read too much Ballard.
Good God, please excuse my ignorance.
vaughan, you’re such a confused man
it’s the first thing that came to my mind. whether this means i’ve read too much ballard, i’m not sure, but the longer it goes on, the more ballardian it gets.