Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening. This book is why Good Omens has the quote, “It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism” in it. It opens with someone eating an Alsatian, which tells you all you need to know about where this is going. The first time I had anything to do with High Rise is when I was laid up with Bell’s palsy and listened to the audiobook narrated by Tom […]
“In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside – there were the same ruthlessness and aggression concealed within a set of polite conventions.”
High Rise by J.G. Ballard