Leith, Sam (2011) "If we can't buy J.G. Ballard's former home, then we should at least erect a statue to him", The Guardian, 18/07, G2, p.22, accessed 18/07/2011 at, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/17/j-g-ballard-former-home
It would be marvellous if it were museumified. Visitors would be able to join Ballardian guided tours and then go "shopping for the memories of his childhood" in the museum store. By the way, that quote is from Ballard's The Drowned World (1962). One of the book's protagonists is Strangman. He and his fellow pirates strip the world's flooded museums of their "objets d'art" and "bric-à-brac: votive urns, goblets, shields and salvers, pieces of decorative armour, ceremonial inkstands and the like". The Ballard Museum in submerged Shepperton filled to the brim with Ballardian bric-à-brac would surely be high on Strangman's shopping list...