I was reading through one of the old Ballard threads last night and came across this,
Who else could this apply to? Who else was lapped by reality? Some of my favourite DeLillo's post-9/11 but there's a sentiment that he was writing about 9/11 for so long that when it finally happened it left him with nowhere to go.
Personally, i think he's found himself stunned by the Millennium - it had been hanging around the corners of his pre 2000 work and when it came it was like Nick Cave finally finding redemption or William Burroughs faced with the enormity of AIDS as a non-symbolic sex virus; "where do we go now? We've spent our souls on documenting unseen horrors, millennial tensions etc and we've dragged ourselves beyond the pale and now...now... THIS.
Who else could this apply to? Who else was lapped by reality? Some of my favourite DeLillo's post-9/11 but there's a sentiment that he was writing about 9/11 for so long that when it finally happened it left him with nowhere to go.