Quotes from book
Running Wild

Name: Running Wild
Author: J. G. Ballard

Running Wild is a novella by British writer J. G. Ballard, first published in 1988. The novel takes the form of a detective novel, recounting the investigation of a mysterious massacre in suburbia through the diary of a forensic psychiatrist.

“In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.”

J. G. Ballard book Running Wild

Running Wild (1988)

“The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.”

J. G. Ballard book Running Wild

Running Wild (1988)

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