J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"لقد كانت بيئةً شُيِّدت، لا للإنسان، بل لغيابه."
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"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."
"لقد كانت بيئةً شُيِّدت، لا للإنسان، بل لغيابه."
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above each other. All the events of the past few months made sense if one realised that these brilliant and exotic creatures had learned to open the doors."
"بغير علم منه، كان قد شيد حديقة حيوان عمودية هائلة، مئات أقفاصها متراكمة فوق بعضها. كل أحداث الأشهر القليلة الماضية باتت منطقية إذا أدرك المرء أن هذه المخلوقات البارعة والغريبة قد تعلمت كيف تفتح الأبواب."
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner when they reached the roof, he reflected with a touch of gallows-humour, but the poodle would be in the pot."
"لكن، على الرغم من كل حبه وولائه للحيوان، كان الكلب سيفارقه قريبًا – سيتواجدان كلاهما في عشاء احتفالي عندما يصِلان إلى السطح، تأمل بلمسة من الفكاهة السوداء، لكن الكلب البودل سيكون في القدر."
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right"."
"كان يسقي بانتظام جلد الدجاجة الألزاسية الداكن، التي حشاها بالثوم والأعشاب. "قاعدة واحدة في الحياة"، تمتم لنفسه، "إذا شممت رائحة الثوم، فكل شيء على ما يرام"."
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."
"التآلف هو ضرب مصعد فارغ."
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance."
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"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"
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed."
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage."
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
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