Concrete Island

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He gestured towards them, trying to make a circuit of the island so that he could leave these sections of himself where they belonged. was at last beginning to shed sections of his mind, shacking off those memories of pain, hunger and humiliation.

A man drives his Jaguar off an exit ramp at high speed and crashes onto an isolated piece of wasteland beneath the convergence of three highway overpasses. Untidy tears to top edge of jacket, approx 2cm to top front of DJ spine, almost 4cm to top rear corner of DJ and 1. After a few days we realise she is a hooker and puts on shiny clothes and stilletos to go get business. While there seems to be a bitter truth here, I don't like it and I don't think Ballard would do that to us.Proctor is strong but subservient to Jane, and she lives a strange decadent existence, turning tricks with passing motorists and smoking marijuana in an abandoned theatre. He has in the concrete island rediscovered the “garden surrounded by a high fence,” an untended, neglected wilderness, lacking the security of his childhood memory.

In 1973 the highly controversial novel Crash was published, a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism; the protagonist becomes sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car crashes. G. Ballard was busily creating modern fables of mankind’s increasingly urban environment and the alienating effect on the human psyche.Of course, that means that the absolute STUPIDEST shit imaginable occurs on pretty much every leaf, but it's fun to see him pull it off.