Quotes from Crash

“I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

“After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

“Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind—mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

“The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

“The long triangular grooves on the car had been formed within the death of an unknown creature, its vanished identity abstracted in terms of the geometry of this vehicle. How much more mysterious would be our own deaths, and those of the famous and powerful?”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

“Horns sounded from the trapped vehicles on the motorway, a despairing chorus.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

“Какая деталь разбивающейся машины поцеловала этот пенис на свадьбе его оргазма и хромированной ручки прибора?”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

“We have annexed the future into the present, as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us. Options multiply around us, and we live in an almost infantile world where any demand, any possibility, whether for life-styles, travel, sexual roles and identities, can be satisfied instantly.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

“This dreamlike logic hung over the entire afternoon.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Crash

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“КУЛИНАРНО

След като се пържих на бавен огън от чакане под гранясалото слънце, най-накрая се озовах в зеления гювеч на един автобс, червив от пътници като швейцарско сирене. Сред куп юфка забелязах голям макарон с изпостелял от диета врат и на тиквата с мекица, на която се открояваше нещо като конец за рязане на масло. Този пъпеш сви сармите на един (попарен, сякаш са му изяли десерта!) сухар, понеже му правел на кайма джоланите. Но после бързо пусна кокала, за да се разлее (с брашно и захар, колкото поеме!) в една опразнена формичка за кекс.

Тъкмо се канех да преглътна всичко в автобуса на връщане, когато пред бюфета на гара Сен Севарин отново видях същия тутманик заедно с някакъв тиквеник (от тия, дето са на всяка манджа мерудия!), който му разтягаше лукуми как да се гарнира. И нашия съвсем я втаса.”
― Raymond Queneau, quote from Exercises in Style

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