Cavafy, in Things Ended, dares to face the uncompromising, unpredictable, terminal nature of disaster.
Because in Ballard's universe — which patiently assembled itself over decades of remarkable novels and stories and essays — words like "atrocity," "disaster," "terminal" and "catastrophe" aren't necessarily bad.
BP has raked in profits of more than £3bn in the past three months – just a year after the near-terminal Deepwater Horizon disaster – but faces renewed demands for its break-up from some City quarters.
There was some controversy over the exact timing of events and the response of the terminal management to the disaster as it unfolded.
For example, you might consider volunteering at a hospice, a hospital for children with terminal diseases or in a disaster relief community where people have lost homes and livelihoods.
He says it's about "disasters and our terminal condition, or it's a warning with no way out, searching for life stuck in hell".
To an industry already in long-term decline, the disaster could have been terminal.
WILLIE WALSH, the chief executive of British Airways, admitted to a committee of MPs on Wednesday that the opening of Terminal 5 at Heathrow had been a "disaster".
But before that, the other may send the terminal outsider and his daughter down the path of disaster, though one shaped more by the tao of Oprah and Dr. Phil than the tragedy of Lear and Cordelia.
For example, situations like natural disasters, crime, self-harm, medical conditions and terminal illnesses.
