Ballard's short stories in the UK have been collected in a HB as Complete Stories, the PB is in 2 volumes. I'll have to check at home in which volume it is and get back to you. I seem to remember that the story first appeared in 'Myths of the Near Future'.
Sean Shapiro
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From: Steve Novak <Cinefrog@comcast.net>
To: RARA-AVIS <rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:58:48 AM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re:Motel noir...
Is this available anywhere...sounds very interesting especially from
Ballard...?
montois
On 7/15/09 6:48 AM, "Sean Shapiro" <ssshapir@yahoo. com> wrote:
> Maybe it's noir, maybe it's not. What about JG Ballard's short story 'Motel
> Architecture' , described by Jason Cowley in The Observer:
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> "In 'Motel Architecture' a man called Pangborn retreats from the world,
> spending his days alone in a solarium, amusing himself by endlessly replaying
> the shower sequence from Psycho on a bank of television screens (this story
> was written in 1978, before the age of video and digitised surveillance
> cameras). One day, he discovers there is an intruder in the solarium, eating
> his food and sharing his private space. Sometimes he catches glimpses of the
> intruder, his spectral presence and shifting shadows. Then a cleaning woman is
> found murdered in the solarium, lying in the 'familiar postures he had
> analysed in a thousand blow-ups'. Pangborn is terrified until, in a moment of
> blazing self-revelation, he realises he has always been alone in the solarium,
> that he is his own intruder, a stranger to himself and perhaps now a murderer,
> too."
>
> Sean Shapiro
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