PATAPHYSICS-THE-POETICS-OF-AN-IMAGINARY- SCIENCE_C_Bok

allard rd dissects these iron collisions of
automobiles with the cool precision of a scientist,
depicting the accident as a kind of crashtest for a
pornofilm (in the vein of Cronenberg)--an event in which the
obscenitg of a message coincides with the obscenity of its
transit. Like an automobile, literature exerts its beauty
only when its speed risks the threat of a crash--the
transitive verging into the intransitive so that, as Virilio
might observe, th9 armoured chauffeur mistakes the ability
to travel freely for the ability to attack freely (1986:27).
hrry writes: "Pilate gave the send-off. Jesus
got away to a good start[....] [A]ccording, to the excellent
sports commentator St. Matthew, it was customary to
flagellate the sprinters at the start the way a coachman
whips his horses[.. ..] Jesus[...]had a flat right away"
(1965:122). Ballard, likewise, writes: "Oswald was the
starter. From his window above the track he opened the race
by firing the starting gun.
It is believed that the first
shot was- not properly heard by al1 the drivers[ , . . . ] .
Kennedy got off to a bad start" (1990:108).