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Impact. The word suggests a moment. A sliver of time so fine that it can only be captured by the fastest shutter speed. The beads of sweat flying off a boxer’s face as he takes an upper-cut on the chin … the bowed strings of a racquet as they flatten a tennis ball at the moment of contact … or the sublime atomic violence of a demolition ball as it swings into the corner of an unloved tower block.
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© 2003 Mark Sherrington
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Sherrington, M. (2003). Impact. In: Added Value. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513488_5
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