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Key Stroke
Will Self
Striking the keys of the same typewriter that once sat under J.G. Ballard’s fingers, Will Self reimagines the legendary writer’s last days.
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False Blood
Will Self
‘The only real universals are that we all live – and, of course, we all must die.’
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The Mind-Child
Remembering J.G. Ballard
Will Self
‘Jim had been in hospital over Christmas’
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Big Dome
Will Self
‘I began to conceive of the city itself as a kind of loving parent, vast but womb-like and surmounted by an overarching dome.’
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Subject+Object: The fount of all smoky wisdom
Will Self
‘To explain what I now feel for the pipe I must paraphrase the writer Robert Stone’s remarks on hard drugs: I admire it from afar.’
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Scale
Will Self
‘Some people lose their sense of proportion; I've lost my sense of scale.‘
