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... that psychologist, computer scientist, and author Christopher Evans had a significant friendship and collaboration with the writer J. G. Ballard; that they they developed ideas (circa 1968) for a play about a car crash, later evolving into an exhibition of crashed cars at The New Arts Lab in London in 1970, and ultimately Ballard's novel Crash, published in 1973; that Evans' charismatic appearance as a "hoodlum scientist" (in Ballard's description) was an inspiration for the character of Dr. Robert Vaughan in Crash; that that Evans also appears in Ballard's fictionalized life story The Kindness of Women as the psychologist Dr. Richard Sutherland?