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  "textContent": "When JG Ballard submitted _Crash_ to Jonathan Cape in the early 1970s, a senior reader reportedly wrote on the manuscript: \"This man is beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish.\" Cape published it anyway, and Ballard went on to write _The Atrocity Exhibition_ , _The Drowned World_ , and _Empire of the Sun_ — a body of work so magnificent that \"Ballardian\" is now a real word in the language. — Read the rest \n\nThe post An editor who read \"Crash\" called JG Ballard \"beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish\" appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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