Jonathan Dollimore

From the London Review dated 24 July 2003

Vehicles of Dissatisfaction

“As anyone who has broken down on the motorway will know, to stand at the side, waiting for rescue, is a revelation. Nothing better conveys the frictional violence of speed. Whatever impression you may get sitting inside a vehicle, cars don’t glide over roads. The sound of rubber on tarmac at speed is a scream which hits your ears a second before the wind turbulence knocks you off balance. And it’s seemingly unending, like the infinitely repeated punishments of hell. Lumps of rubber lie there too, remnants of collision or fatigue, the debris of life in the fast lane.” [ read more . . . ]

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