We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass
merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of
advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into
popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of
identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any
free or original imaginative response to experience by the television
screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular
it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content
of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to
invent the reality.
- J.G. Ballard Introduction to the French edition (1974) of Crash
(1973) reprinted in Re/Search no. 8/9 (1984)


sorry i had j. g. ballard mixed up with j.g. bennett.

although.......

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