Though the automobile accident eroticism is strange, Ballard makes clear that it isn’t purely just the accident which causes this new form of sexual arousal. In the first few chapters, Ballard goes through quite a length of descriptions describing the dynamic between the automobile and the persons involved with the accident. Indeed, this dynamic is essential to the arousal of flesh meshed with chromium. Ballard does a great job of making sure no reader could live a life boring enough to perhaps be excluded in the thoughts of Vaughn’s imaginative mind. Each victim’s life and background, no matter the circumstances, can only produce euphoric sexual results. I think that this tactic employed by Ballard surely makes its difficult for each reader to not imagine a Vaughn or James Ballard also driving menacingly down their local streets and highways.
Aside from that psychological aspect that leaves readers fearful hoping not to ever meet these characters in a collision, I enjoy Ballard’s use of the word “rainbow.” He uses this word to describe any visual transition of colors. Regardless if these transitions hold several colors or not, they are still rainbows in the eyes of our narrator James. Perhaps this ability for James to see and think things above and around most individuals is an important detail that would help him eventually delve into the mysterious sexualities of violent car accidents. Perhaps, too, this is what Martin Amis alluded to in reference to Ballard’s bold new sexual fetish. It seems unimaginable to indulge it such an act, however, it also seems all too possible.
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