Crash by J G Ballard

Author:J G Ballard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-01-15T18:18:47.148000+00:00

Chapter 12

Vaughan was right. Catherine's sexual fantasies began more and more to involve him. At night, as we lay together in our bedroom, we approached Vaughan through the pantheon of our familiar partners like Vaughan himself tracking us through the lobbies of the terminal buildings.

'We must get some more hash.' Catherine looked up at the traffic lights sweeping across the windows. 'Why is Seagrave so obsessed with these film actresses? You say he wants to crash into them?'

'Vaughan put the idea into his head. He's using Sea-grave in some experiment.'

'What about the wife?'

'She's under Vaughan's thumb.'

'And you?'

Catherine lay with her back to me, buttocks pressed into my groin. As I moved my penis I looked past my scarred navel at the cleft between her buttocks, as immaculate as a doll's. I held her breasts in my hands, her rib cage crushing my wristwatch into my forearm. Catherine's passive stance was deceptive; from long practice I knew that this was the prelude to an erotic fantasy, a slow and circular inspection of some fresh sexual quarry.

'Am I under his thumb? No. But it's difficult to know where the centre of his personality is.'

'You don't resent him taking all those photographs? It sounds as if he's using you.'

I began to play with Catherine's right nipple. Not yet ready for this, she took my hand and placed it Page 43

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