J. G. Ballard 1930-2009

EINSTEIN.'The notion that this great Swiss mathematician is a pornographer may strike you as something of a bad joke,' Dr. Lancaster remarked to Webster. 'However, you must understand that for Traven science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography. How different from Lautreamont, who brought together the sewing machine and the umbrella on the operating table, identifying the pudenda of the carpet with the woof of the cadaver.' Dr. Lancaster turned to Webster with a laugh. 'One looks forward to the day when the General Theory of Relativity and the Pricipia will outsell the Kama Sutra in back-street bookshops.'

ur "The Assassination Weapon" av J. G. Ballard 1966.