His London is a dystopian hellscape riddled by sickness, injustice, cold, and want. |
Philedelphia cops in the 1960s first used Black Friday to describe the hellscape of snarled traffic and Christmas-shopping stampedes the day after Thanksgiving. |
Instead, we are privy to something realistically ugly: a hellscape of gossip, dominated by old men making mean remarks about the miscarriages of potential queens. |
And for that purpose it is necessary not to think of the camps simply as a hellscape. |
It isn't the development that David Brillembourg envisioned, but it isn't a Ballardian hellscape either. |
I suppose it's understandable for an east-coaster to view things that way, coming from a world of no public wilderness areas, just an unending concrete hellscape. |