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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Crime Art Emerges from the Recesses of the JG Ballard Atrocity Exhibition Novel and David Bowie Detective Nathan Adler Diary into Real Life

“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.” 
- Glen Cook
from Wikipdia:

The Atrocity Exhibition, Ballard admitted in 2007, originated in large part from the sudden death of his first wife Mary from pneumonia:[5]

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death. Leaving me with these very young children, I felt that a crime had been committed by nature against this young woman — and her children — and I was searching desperately for an explanation [...] To some extent The Atrocity Exhibition is an attempt to explain all the terrible violence that I saw around me in the early sixties. It wasn't just the Kennedy assassination [...] I think I was trying to look for a kind of new logic that would explain all these events.
Crime Art - Symbolic Violence

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