i seem to be having a j.g. ballard afternoon.
this is germaine:
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We are bombarded by this absolute deluge of fictional material of every conceivable kind, and all this has the effect of preempting our own original response to anything. All these events are presented to us with their prepackaged emotions already in place, so if you are shown an earthquake or airliner crash you are told what you think.
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Mississippi Review, 1991
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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