James begins to discover and indulge in his new found eroticism. He imagines a future beach, made up of broken glass grains instead of sand. He speaks of this time as “the age of the automobile accident” (57), but it seems that time may have already approached.
Most noticeable in these chapters, James begins to become curious and interested in Vaughn. On the multi-storey car-park James takes in Vaughn’s facial scarring from a serious motorcycle accident. It seems all too obvious that, this too, had catapulted Vaughn into this new form of “excitement and eroticism, punishment and desire” (147).
However, I remain confused in deciphering the cryptic relationship between James and Helen Remington. James concluded that “by a terrifying paradox, a sexual act between us would be a way of taking her revenge on me” (72). Having sex with the man that murdered her husband seems like an odd way to exact revenge. Perhaps it is in this perverse world J.G. Ballard crafts which enables constant sex drive into the minds of characters, controlling every move from the basis of sexual encounters.
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