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The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race

Ballard, J. G.

December 4th, 2007 · 8 Comments

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I was thinking about the last story I read to you, and thinking it’d be nice if other events of this variety, the sort of events that are difficult to explain to small children, were similarly reimagined. And not just on a large scale, either. I’m talking about The Pulling of My Wisdom Teeth Considered as a Jaunt Through a Daisy Field, or The Love Affair Between Gravity and my Ceiling, Considered as a Synchronized Swimming Spectacular. And here’s another.

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  • 1 Randy Noseworthy // Dec 5, 2007 at 6:15 am

    Miette, I just found your podcast, and wanted to say thanks, I enjoy it very much!

  • 2 psmithy // Dec 6, 2007 at 8:27 am

    Hi miette,

    I just love these podcasts. I was listening to librivox’s psmith in the city and happened to come
    across two chapters read by you. What a pleasant surprise!

    Keep it up.

  • 3 scatterbrain // Jan 13, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    If you want to read a Ballard novel, I suggest The Concrete Island to start off with.

  • 4 miette // Apr 20, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    I recommend just about all Ballard novels. And his stories are all as self-contained as this one, and perfect slivers of his longer work, and just as recommended. Glad so many people are finding this one.

  • 5 Carole McDonnell // May 9, 2009 at 4:48 am

    Thank you for this reading. -C

  • 6 Seth // Jul 23, 2010 at 6:05 am

    I just reviewed this story over on Free Listens ( http://www.freelistens.blogspot.com ). Thanks for the great reading!

  • 7 Some Stuff to Check Out : gordsellar.com // Apr 8, 2011 at 12:03 am

    [...] Some MP3s narrated by Miette: Alfred Jarry’s “The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race” and the story it inspired, JG Ballard’s “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.” [...]

  • 8 2011, a year in games as viewed as a downhill motor race*… | Third Point of Singularity // Jan 6, 2012 at 10:49 pm

    [...] Posted on January 7, 2012 | Leave a comment *Apologies to Mr. J.G. Ballard for lifting his best short story title ever for this post, but this is the time of year where we are subjected to a bazillion blog posts with [...]

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