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COPYRIGHT 2002 Financial Times Ltd.
(From The Independent)
Byline: SHOLTO BYRNES
Why Bluewater gives J G Ballard shopping rage
VOne of the country's most acclaimed novelists has called for the Bluewater Centre, in Kent, to be obliterated. In London Orbital, a film inspired by Iain Sinclair's book of the same title to be broadcast tonight on Channel 4, JG Ballard declares in conversation with Sinclair: "Iain, I want you to blow up Bluewater." Sinclair then verbally batters the hapless shopping centre, a pimple just south of the M25. It is, he says,...
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