Singing Statues

J. G. Ballard, 1962 Nevers was switching on sculptures right and left like a lunatic magician, and the noise was a babel of competing sensocells, some of the statues responding to Lunora’s enigmatic presence, others to Nevers and the secretary. Lunora shook her head slowly, mouth hardening as the noise irritated her. “Yes, Mr. Nevers,”