The Atrocity Exhibition

Джеймс Г. Баллард, Хари Кунзру, Уильям Берроуз

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fru-n-quiz16 января 2026 г.
his eyes hidden behind the dark glasses as if deliberately concealing himself from the white walls of the apartment and its unsettled dimensions.
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fru-n-quiz15 января 2026 г.
As the thirty or so cups were set out on a large polished table she began to stare at the bobbing liquid, then stepped forward and carefully inverted the brimming cup in her hand. The hot liquid dripped everywhere in a terrible mess, and the orderly screamed: ‘Doreen, why did you do that?’, to which Doreen matter-of-factly replied: ‘Jesus told me to.’ She was right, though I like to think that what really impelled her was a sense of the intolerable contrast between the infinitely plastic liquid in her hand and the infinitely hard geometry of the table, followed by the revelation that she could resolve these opposites in a very simple and original way. She attributed the insight to divine intervention,
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fru-n-quiz15 января 2026 г.
She sat up, aware of the absence of any sounds or movement in the apartment. He had brought with him an immense quiet.
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fru-n-quiz15 января 2026 г.
The signs seemed to have escaped from my head, clambering over the rooftops like some monster in a 1950s s-f movie. The irony of being trapped inside the media maze I had described in The Atrocity Exhibition wasn’t lost on me.
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fru-n-quiz15 января 2026 г.
Kennedy’s assassination presides over The Atrocity Exhibition , and in many ways the book is directly inspired by his death, and represents a desperate attempt to make sense of the tragedy, with its huge hidden agenda.
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fru-n-quiz15 января 2026 г.
It was from the island of Tinian, in the Marianas, that the atom bombs were launched against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which ended the war unexpectedly and almost certainly saved the lives of myself and my fellow internees in Shanghai, where the huge Japanese armies had intended to make a last stand against the expected American landings.
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fru-n-quiz15 января 2026 г.
These three figures, who are shadows projected from Traven’s unconscious, had been in my mind since the end of the 1950s <…>. They materialized in The Atrocity Exhibition
, but then exited and never returned. I wait patiently for them to reappear.
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fru-n-quiz15 января 2026 г.
Hidden behind a dune, the hut no longer seemed a part of his world. The sky remained constant, the warm air touching the shreds of test papers sticking up from the sand. He continued to examine the wheel. Nothing happened.
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fru-n-quiz15 января 2026 г.
One morning he woke to find that they had gone.
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fru-n-quiz15 января 2026 г.
In a technical sense he was dead for about two minutes. Now, all this time later, it looks as if something is missing, something that vanished during the short period of his death. Perhaps his soul, the capacity to achieve a state of grace.
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