Vaughan's Questionnaires

This flow traces how Vaughan turns private fantasies into a pseudo-scientific archive of celebrity victims and bodily injuries.

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Subject Recruitment

Subject Recruitment Sample Vaughan surveys programmers, airport workers, medical staff, performers, and crash survivors. Premise He assumes that previous accidents have opened each subject to hidden fantasies. Trauma becomes his qualification for participation.

Celebrity Lists

Celebrity Lists Selection Subjects receive names from politics, entertainment, science, sport, crime, and the arts. Function The list turns fame into a target system. Public identity becomes vulnerable to private fantasies of automotive destruction.

Wound Taxonomy

Wound Taxonomy Inventory Vaughan catalogues fractures, ejections, burns, crush injuries, facial damage, and genital wounds. Ideology The archive presents violence as measurable and selectable. Anatomy becomes a menu through which desire can choose its preferred form.

Seagrave's Answers

Seagrave's Answers Fixation Seagrave selects film actresses and imagines almost exclusively genital injuries for them. Exposure His answers reveal how Vaughan's ideas have entered another damaged mind. The questionnaire is less research than psychological infection.

Taylor as Endpoint

Taylor as Endpoint Target Elizabeth Taylor appears as the final name in the archive, surrounded by imagined impact points and wound sites. Consequence The questionnaire formally completes Vaughan's project before the physical crash begins. The file becomes a blueprint for murder.

after the laboratory visit

during the questionnaire project

during the questionnaire project

before the Harlington crash

immediately before Seagrave's death