The Atrocity Exhibition: J.G. Ballard’s Syncromystical Masterpiece
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We discuss acclaimed author JG Ballard’s 1969 experimental piece of transgressive syncromystical literature. Love, death, loss, trauma, tragedy, eroticism, car accidents as immanent mystical experiences, JFK, Ralph Nader, Elizabeth Taylor, WWII, Vietnam, art etc. 
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