Crash (J. G. Ballard)

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Created on: 16-05-17 21:12

"Meanwhile, the traffic..."

"moves in an unceasing flow...the aircraft rise fro the runways of the airports, carrying the remnants of Vaughn's semen to the instrument panels and radiator grills of a thousand crashing cars, the leg stances of a million passengers."

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"I saw this as..."

"an attempt at tagging himself, to fix his identity by marking it upon some external event."

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"For the first time..."

"I was in physical confrontation with my own body, an inexhaustible encyclopedia of pains and discharges, with the hostile gaze of other people."

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"It seemed to me..."

"the I was describing a sex act involving someone other than myself."

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"In his mind..."

"Vaughn saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster."

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"The intimate..."

"time and space of a single human being had been fossilized for ever in this web of chromium knives and frosted glass."

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"The lights along..."

"western avenue illuminated the speeding cars, moving together towards this celebration of wounds."

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"the crash was..."

"the only real experience I had been through for years."

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