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Crash (Stephenson, Neal)
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Crash (Movie) , and more.
Where Crash literalised the term “auto-erotic”, Cocaine Nights does the same for “guilt complex” (note that these are both psychoanalytic terms). Cocaine Nights, Ballard’s most recent novel, is something of a departure; the first half of the book reads like a fairly straightforward detective piece, with none of Ballard’s trademark tampering with space-time or individual psyches. Cocaine Nights’ plot centres on the Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, where a housefire kills five people, and the subsequent involvement of Charles Prentice, an outsider whose brother Frank has been arrested for murder. Like Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness and indeed Crash, the book is under the spell of an alluring and quite possibly insane visionary figure. In its description if a society hellbent on leisure, Cocaine Nights follows the line of the argument set out in Carol Reed’s The Third Man, where Harry Lime compares the cuckoo clock art that came from the gentile Swiss culture with the decadent and depraved reign of the Borgias that produced da Vinci.
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The cult status of "Crash" has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a 'TV scientist', experiments with erotic atrocities among crash victims, each more sinister than the last: ultimately, he craves a union of blood, semen and engine coolant in a head-on collision with Elizabeth Taylor.
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Crash data for the analysis were obtained from the 1999–2000 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) crash databases. This report identified the crash scenarios, described the crash contributing factors, and characterized the infrastructure where fatal crashes occurred in 1999 and 2000.
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In order to better follow Crash's treatment for multiple myeloma cancer, it is helpful to understand some of the intrusive symptoms that he may be experiencing, as well as some fundamental explanations about the different treatment aspects themselves. All information has been taken directly from literature published and distributed by the International Myeloma Foundation.
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Existing somewhere between the manifest edifices of Crash and Empire Of The Sun, the rest of JG Ballard’s fiction glides and grinds like vast tectonic plates. Those already acquainted with Crash, the polar extreme of Ballard’s oeuvre, and his most successful book, the semi-autobiographical work Empire Of The Sun, will find the rest of his work as resonant and thought-provoking as these two novels. With the controversy and critical acclaim that has surrounded David Cronenberg’s film adaptation of Crash, it is about time that the rest of Ballard’s work received a closer look.
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Crash data would come from records of motorcycle injury crashes. This data would then be compared to BACs and other information (if available) to on-road population-at-risk data taken from a different source.
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