He was obsessed with the design of chromium accents on fender louvres, stainless-steel body-sill mouldings, windshield-wiper cowl panels, hood locks and door latches. ibid. p170
For Vaughan the motor-car was the sexual act’s greatest and only true locus. ibid. p171
The carapace of the instrument binnacle, the inclined planes and ashtrays gleamed around me like altarpieces, their geometries reaching towards my body like the stylized embraces of some hyper-cerebral machine. ibid. p200
Flies crawled across the oil-smeared windshield, vibrating against the glass. The chains of their bodies formed a blue veil between myself and the traffic moving along the motorway. I turned on the windscreen wipers, but the blades swept through the flies without disturbing them. ibid. p204
Meanwhile, the traffic moves in an unceasing flow along the flyover. The aircraft rise from the runways of the airport, carrying the remains of Vaughan’s semen to the instrument panels and radiator grilles of a thousand crashing cars, the leg stances of a million passengers. ibid. p224
Forget injuries: never forget kindnesses. Confucius
Clint Malarchuck was an MHL goalie for 11 seasons. But he may be best known for one of the most horrific injuries in sports history. Cutthroat, caption, ESPN short 2013
Malarchuck amassed 141 career wins. In 1987 he made the All-Star team and led the league in shutouts. ibid.
‘That skate just cut my neck.’ ibid.
Malarchuck lost nearly a third of the blood in his body. Doctors operated through the night on his neck, throat, jugular vein and carotid artery. If the skate had cut even 1/4 inch deeper he would have died immediately. ibid.
Such a severe head injury could be partly responsible for the marked change in Henry’s personality. He became an increasingly brutal and cruel king. Suzannah Lipscomb, Henry VIII & Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History I & II, Channel 5 2014
The injustice of double jeopardy would come into sharp focus in another very public case: Stephen Lawrence … The inquiry set up after the failure to convict Stephen Lawrence’s killers published a scathing report. Catching Britain’s Killers: The Crimes that Changed Us II, BBC 2019