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p. 5809 http://www.lordmeher.org/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&nextPage=5809 <br class="br">Lord Meher (1986)
“Even the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or, more ambiguously, recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways. Laing pondered this — sometimes he found it difficult not to believe that they were living in a future that had already taken place, and was now exhausted.”
— J. G. Ballard, book High-Rise
Source: High-Rise (1975), Ch. 16
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