While there's a flicker of a flame there's some hope".
Like a little flicker of flame ready to burst into a full-on fire.
Was this the start of a glorious fightback, such as he produced against Nadal over three hours and eight minutes the evening before, or a flickering of the flame?
"I was just eight, it was my first-ever match," said Mark Thomas, from Bradford, who saw the first flicker of flame as a discarded match slipped between floorboards and set fire to a polystyrene cup.
He went to a window and saw the flicker of flames against the darkness.
All of the segments are fun; some are unexpectedly touching, like the mysterious atmospheric sounds of the rubber pipes hitting the floor, and especially the fugue on eight Zippo lighters, performed in total darkness, with the flickers of flame providing a visual counterpoint to the clicking sounds.
Yet despite the bitter aftertaste, Powell, cigarette dangling, still cupped a flickering flame of faith in the Powers That Were.
The hurt-his-leg theory was supported by television footage from the summer in which Kim appeared to be limping, and by a documentary aired on North Korean television on September 25th that referred to "our marshal, who keeps lighting the path for the people, like the flicker of a flame, despite suffering discomfort".
In a one-hour documentary aired on Thursday that showed a limping Kim visiting a factory near Pyongyang, the narrator said: "The wealth and prosperity of our socialism is thanks to the painstaking efforts of our marshal, who keeps lighting the path for the people, like the flicker of a flame, despite suffering discomfort".
Pearson was able to find a glimmer of official information in a new documentary about Kim shown on North Korean state television: "The wealth and prosperity of our socialism is thanks to the painstaking efforts of our marshal, who keeps lighting the path for the people, like the flicker of a flame, despite suffering discomfort," the voiceover states over footage of Kim walking with a limp.
