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The first thing I read this morning was that Elizabeth Taylor had died at the age of 79, having lived a long, full, and very eventful life. Fast-forward to a little later in the day: I headed down to the cafe for some lunch and decided ... The circumstances that led to my acquiring this particular book were somewhat convoluted: A year or so ago I read a chapter in a book called Psychedelic Decadence about Ballard, in whom I had a longstanding but little-explored interest. ...