Life Imitates Art

The news item that an astronaut has been charged with trying to kill her rival in love is already bizarre enough in itself. But then, as pointed out over at the Ballardian, the news story bears a number of hallmarks of the typical motifs of J. G. Ballard. Spooky.

 

At least it’s a better referent to his work than the twaddle written by Liddle recently. See Obscene Desserts for the full story and riposte. Oh, and as far as I’m concerned Mr. Liddle lost any claim to be talking sense some while back. I now classify him as being in the Jeremy Clarkson pigeonhole: best avoided, at all costs.