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
It’s almost a relief to have found myself in an actual accident. Crash 1996 starring James Spader & Deborah Kara Unger & Elias Koteas & Holly Hunter & Rosanna Arquette & Peter MacNeill & Judah Katz & Nicky Guadagni et al, director David Cronenberg, him to her
They bury the dead so quickly; they should leave them lying around for months. ibid. her to him
Here we go – the fatal crash of James Dean. ibid.
I live in my car; this is my workshop. ibid.
The reshaping of the human body by modern technology. ibid.
For the first time there’s benevolent psychopathology that beckons towards us. For example, the car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event – a liberation of sexual energy mediating the sexuality of those who have died with an intensity that’s impossible in any other form. ibid.
Maybe the next one, darling. ibid. him to her
Sex is now a conceptual act, it’s probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all. J G Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
Their violence (the jungle wars of the ’70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques. ibid.
Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved!
Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom
and wherever deserved.
Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue,
Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless
And it isn’t for you. Louise Bogan, The Blue Estuaries
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic
In heavenly spirits could such perverseness dwell? John Milton, Paradise Lost VI:788
All things can corrupt perverse minds. Ovid
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart – one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat 1843
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
No form of sexual depravity is too low for me. Blackadder II: Money, Bishop of Bath & Wells to Blackadder, with Baldrick, BBC 1986
You fiend. Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity. Have you ever considered a career in the church? ibid. Bishop
Maud’s appearance had suggested an unduly fastidious attitude to sex and Sir Giles had been surprised, not to say pained, by her too literal interpretation of his suggestion on their honeymoon that she should tie him to the bed and beat him. Sir Giles’ screams had been audible a quarter of a mile along the Costa Brava and had led to an embarrassing interview with the hotel manager. Tom Sharpe, Blott on the Landscape
Lady Maud took the book and studied a page. ‘And what were you last night?’ she asked finally. ‘Miss Catheter, the Wicked Nurse, or Sister Florinda, the Nymphomaniac Nun?’
Mrs Forthby blushed, ‘Doris, the Schoolgirl Sexpot,’ she tittered. ibid.
The country’s favourite form of relaxation is being smeared in baby lotion and having high-class prostitutes walking on top of you in stiletto heels. Spitting Image s2e8, New at Ten, ITV 1985
‘I am a woman. And this is a bridge. And despite our vast differences we are very much in love.’ Strange Love: Married to the Eiffel Tower, objectum-sexual, 2008
‘He [bridge] and I can never be truly intimate.’ ibid.
One of just forty people in the world who call themselves objectum-sexuals, people who have sexual relationships with object. ibid.
They also give them names depending on their gender. ibid.
‘I want your fluids.’ ibid. woman in love with fairground ride
‘I’m definitely physically attracted to this fence.’ ibid. other woman
Hywel and Joceline decided to turn their fetishes into their full-time careers and run Restrained Elegance, a successful production company specialising in British bondage videos. Kinky Britain, Channel 4 2016
One of the most kinky nations on Earth. ibid.
Booty slapping … roll-neck sweaters … female v male wrestling … [car] pedal-pumping … balloon fetish … food … inflataphilia … teeth floss … cream crackers … macrophilia (impossibly gigantic things/women) … ibid.
In 1980 the killer couple would commit a string of cruel murders against the backdrop of LA’s Sunset strip. Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy would act out their darkest desires and leave a trail of bloodshed in their wake … ‘The couple from hell, everyone’s worse nightmare’ … But what had motivated their sickening crimes? Were Clark and Bundy born to kill? Born to Kill? s5e12: Clark and Bundy, Channel 5 2017
But as darkness falls the Strip transforms into a very different scene … Working girls had begun being plucked from Sunset Strip, murdered and dumped on the streets in the hills. As the body count climbed the perpetrator was dubbed the Sunset Slayer, a killer seemingly capable of the most shocking of atrocities. ibid.
Jack Murray had been shot, stabbed, mutilated and beheaded. ibid.
‘A necrophiliac aspect to the case.’ ibid.
‘It’s pretty deviant behaviour.’ ibid. professor
‘It’s a bitch to get the clothes off a dying girl.’ ibid. Carol
Doug kept a trophy from his night’s killing. But it would be the revelation of what the couple would do next with the severed head of X Wilson that would most astound and horrify investigators … Carol was excited by the prospect of joining him in his perversions. ibid.
‘It’s a bitch putting lipstick on a frozen face. ibid.
Doug would continue to deny his involvement in the crimes. ibid.
They couldn’t hear me. They couldn’t see me. But I could hear them and see them. It’s been a secret all these years. It’s been a secret for 47 years … A lot of people are going to call me a pervert. A peeping Tom. Voyeur, Foos, 2017
I’m pursuing a story about a man named Gerard Foos who decided he wanted to buy a motel for the express purpose of using it to watch everything that was being done in private. ibid. Gay Talese, journalist
He writes it down … hundreds and hundreds of stories. ibid.
I’m wondering how firmly I can rely on him. The hotel is real. ibid.
He wanted to be discovered. ibid.
Gay Talese Disavows His Own Book Before It’s Published Saying ‘Its Credibility is Down the Toilet.’ ibid. newspaper article
I got in his life and I ruined it. ibid. Foos
That book is really dead. ibid. Talese