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							- author: Jean Baudrillard
 
- content: 'Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered,
 
-   everything to be obliterated. Admittedly, there is the primal shock of the deserts
 
-   and the dazzle of California, but when this is gone, the secondary brilliance of
 
-   the journey begins, that of the excessive, pitiless distance, the infinity of anonymous
 
-   faces and distances, or of certain miraculous geological formations, which ultimately
 
-   testify to no human will, while keeping intact an image of upheaval. This form of
 
-   travel admits of no exceptions: when it runs up against a known face, a familiar
 
-   landscape, or some decipherable message, the spell is broken: the amnesic, ascetic,
 
-   asymptotic charm of disappearance succumbs to affect and worldly semiology.'
 
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