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Moby Dick
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Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
“I am infinitely strange to myself.”
― The French Lieutenant’s Woman
― The French Lieutenant’s Woman
“The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.”
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer
“If one takes a close look at each fragment of a moment, one might choke with terror.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“Sooner or later, all games become serious.”
― Super-Cannes
― Super-Cannes
“We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”
― The Terror
― The Terror
J.G. Ballard
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A group in honour of the late Jim Ballard, who pulled science fiction out of the adolescent male ghetto and gave us books full of beauty, excitement, ...more
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