He would also play around with a makeshift instrument called a diddley bow, which was a wire attached to a house that a person could pull taut and hit with a stick, altering the pitch with a bottle that slides along the wire.
The old scar on his forehead, which was shaped like a bolt of lightning, was burning beneath his fingers as though someone had just pressed a white-hot wire to his skin.
We just put the metal wire and where the the focal point of the three mirrors they create together what they call a death ray that gets the molten wire to melt.
We bought long coils of evergreen garland, the bendable kind with wire inside, and wrapped them around the banister up the open staircase, twisting them tight between each spindle until our fingertips hurt.
Life would be no better than candle-light tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been, to issues of longing and constancy.