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...pure, are a recurring motif. On the run from predators imagined or real, Jones' protagonists seek refuge in solitude or sex. On Tigers, men are portrayed as unpredictable beasts that can never be entirely tamed -- or trusted. ''Playing with tigers,'' Jones sings over rumbling congas and drums, ''Tracing the lamp with my toes/ Playing with tigers 'til I find out/ Where it goes.'' At once innocent and world-weary, Jones' voice drops to a husky whisper or drawls syllables to wring nuance from every note. Painful memories appear without warning. On A Stranger's Car, Jones promises a young runaway...
...smoking water pipes and socializing. In Harithiya, the coils of barbed wire on a patch of grass have been tossed aside, and a group of school-age boys now play soccer in its midst; on the same street, a cluster of teenage girls stand, giggling together under a street lamp - which, miraculously, is working. By day, the affluent Karada district bustles with life. Old storefronts - their glass once blown out by explosions and now replaced - display grandiose chandeliers for sale, dripping in crystal...
...love--the child's belief that a piece of cloth or a machine can have life, feelings, personality--is at the heart of many Pixar movies, beginning with Lasseter's '80s shorts Luxo, Jr. (whose lamp became the i in the company's logo), Red's Dream and Tin Toy, all made to demonstrate the possibilities of the infant CGI medium but with the savvy and sentiment of a natural storyteller. Stanton says he has seen Luxo, Jr. dozens of times, yet, "Miraculously, I get caught up every time" in the wordless story of father-and-son lamps. Take that...
...substance in whiskey barrels after striking their first gushers. Before U.S. drilling began in 1859, "rock oil" (to differentiate it from vegetable oil or animal fat) was sopped up with rags, wrung out and peddled as a cure for everything from headaches to deafness. Spurred by demand for lamp fuel as whale blubber grew scarce, derricks popped up all over Pennsylvania's oil region in the 1860s--although subsequent overproduction drove prices so far down that at one point, a wooden barrel was worth twice as much as the oil it contained, according to Daniel Yergin's definitive tome...
...there are multiple moments when Ganeshananthan soars to the same heights of literary joy as her mentor. When Yalini describes her similarity to her Aunt Uma, Ganeshananthan’s prose takes off: “Uma was not there, not there to the point that when the temple lamp was passed she dipped her fingers into the fire instead of hovering at its edge. She did not notice the pain. Murali [Yalini’s father] knows now that you cannot escape your demons. He sees me, Yalini, as perhaps most like Uma: she has those other world eyes...