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All that pent up terror and rage
Dodie Bellamy
Plague Widow
Driving to the Castro, Bee Reaved feels hyper emotional, as she often does in the car, Nick Cave’s Ghosteen on repeat, and she thinks—this is what it’s like to live without hope. Six months after Kevin’s death, friends left her to fare for herself. Other widows warned her this would happen, that everybody would disappear before she was ready. One widow she no longer talks to said, “Wait and see, you’re going to have a total breakdown.” Now, with the...
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Stephen Barber
An immodest proposal
J.G. Ballard’s self-declared ‘Immodest Proposal’ for a global war-alliance to exact the destruction of America demonstrates the provocatory zeal of his last fiction plans, as well as their enduring prescience. As Ballard emphasises several times in the World Versus America notebooks, he is utterly serious in his concerns and visions.
Although the Ballard estate declined permission for any images of pages from the World Versus America archival notebooks to accompany this essay, any member of the general public interested to do so can readily visit the British Library and view the notebooks in their entirety in the freely-accessible manuscripts collection there.
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Halluzinatorische Kraft, literarische Finesse
Gomes/Thermann
Berge, Quallen
Auf Błaszczykowskis Schreibtisch stand neben übereinandergestapelten Bänden eines Medizinlexikons ein gräulich flackernder Computerbildschirm. Seit mehreren Minuten versuchte Błaszczykowski, die Stirn in die linke Hand gepresst, seiner Müdigkeit einen Angriffsplan über den Königsflügel abzuringen, doch das Schachbrett zerfloss immer wieder vor den zufallenden Lidern. »Dr. Błaszczykowski!« Eine Frauenstimme riss ihn aus dem Halbschlaf, die Deckenlampen gingen an. »Sie müssen in die Notaufnahme!« In der Tür stand eine Krankenschwester, mit Hüften, die breiter als ihre Schultern waren. »Es ist dringend, Herr Doktor!«...
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