... Utopianism by Krishan Kumar (Open University Press, 1999) goes into interesting detail regarding this idea of Paradise or the Golden Age, that fits perfectly with a number of the ideas and themes in The Drowned World: "Most frequently this myth takes a primitivist form. The "original" time or condition was one of simplicity and sufficiency. There was an instinctive harmony between man and ... which is hindered by mud just below the surface, the remains of the sunken island". In Plato's vision, the utopian city failed. Ballard differs from this in the fact that the failure of the city wa...

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