What follows is a pulse-pounding sequence unlike any such chase scene in the canon, a sensory overload of screaming engines, twisted metal and scorching flames. Final speed. It acts as a reference point from which the readers can infer the setting around the characters. From the moment the Batmobile roars to life, you can feel it in your chest. The differentiating and singularizing of this term could serve to foreshadow the tragic events at the end of the novel when the atomic bomb is dropped on the two Japanese cities that killed hundreds of thousands of citizens.
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