Comments on: JG Ballard, Our Greatest Living Novelist is No Longer http://tomorrowmuseum.com/2009/04/19/jg-ballard-our-greatest-living-novelist-is-no-longer/ What's New in Art, Technology, and Media Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:35:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: wytchcroft http://tomorrowmuseum.com/2009/04/19/jg-ballard-our-greatest-living-novelist-is-no-longer/comment-page-1/#comment-2368 wytchcroft Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:58:48 +0000 http://www.tomorrowmuseum.com/?p=1136#comment-2368 i must admit i lost Ballard a little with Super-Cannes and Cocaine Nights but Millenium People was wonderful. And you are right in your final paragraph - Ballard did encapsulate a strange sort of optimism after all.<br><br>i was re-reading the Eno/Mills book More Dark Than Shark and realised yet again that Brian Eno is not only the closest to Ballard in popular music he's now probably the closest to Ballard fullstop.<br><br>Naturally i first read this piece just after Ballard's passing, i could hardly face writing abut it myself at the tme, and it was a fine testimony. Still is. i must admit i lost Ballard a little with Super-Cannes and Cocaine Nights but Millenium People was wonderful. And you are right in your final paragraph – Ballard did encapsulate a strange sort of optimism after all.

i was re-reading the Eno/Mills book More Dark Than Shark and realised yet again that Brian Eno is not only the closest to Ballard in popular music he's now probably the closest to Ballard fullstop.

Naturally i first read this piece just after Ballard's passing, i could hardly face writing abut it myself at the tme, and it was a fine testimony. Still is.

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