IMAGERY OF THE DAY...

From article on the selling of J.G.Ballard's home Sam Lieth had this to say...

It is brilliantly Ballardian. His editor once told me that Ballard saw his role, as a writer, to be the man standing on the hard shoulder of a particularly hairy curve on the motorway of modernity, holding up a bent cardboard sign on which were scrawled words to the effect of "TROUBLE AHEAD!" or "BRIDGE OUT!" If we can't buy the house, we could at least have a whipround for a statue of the man holding just such a placard. He could be hanging over the side of Laleham Road, just where it passes over the M3.

I really enjoy this image of him :)

read the article here