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A review by petaq
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
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What are you doing living on the 20th floor. Our monkey ancestors did not climb down from the trees for you to live on the 20th floor. The trees they lived in never got higher than the 4th floor anyways. Now you are feasting on dog meat and your necklace is composed of scavenged human teeth from your neighbour's living room. Should I be surprised. NO. You lived on the 20th floor.
(Wowowowww the high-rise is like the internet* MAN... We love a book about social isolation and class stratification in the context of structures that ostensibly put us closer together! )
*I know the internet as it is didnt exist as it does now when Ballard wrote this nor am I making an argument about him predicting a bunch of stuff. but. it appears. things do be the way they be
(Wowowowww the high-rise is like the internet* MAN... We love a book about social isolation and class stratification in the context of structures that ostensibly put us closer together! )
*I know the internet as it is didnt exist as it does now when Ballard wrote this nor am I making an argument about him predicting a bunch of stuff. but. it appears. things do be the way they be