Memories and Movies

That old word wizard JG Ballard has a fascinating article in today’s Guardian. In it, he muses over where his memory ends and where the interpretation of those memories by other people begins. He uses the events, both original and subsequent, that powered his novel Empire of the Sun. I’ve a soft spot for Ballard’s dystopic novels, where alien things ripple under a surface normality. Once the library gets upacked and installed in the new house, I must re-read Empire of the Sun again.