... of the Golden Age. Where this idea truly fits into Ballard's fiction is that the Christian Paradise was not something that existed merely in the past; it also lay in the future. Paradise, once lost, could and would be regained. In fact, many cultures have foreseen a time of floods ... adapted radical methods facing youth criminality. There are several indications leading to the supposition that the general form of the government is a socialist one, e.g. the teenage slang called Nadsat which handles chiefly Russian vocabulary, streets named after personalities like Yuri Gagarin and paintin...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate