In "ForeverandaDay" the chaotic continually threatened to spill out and run loose, much like the dim flashlight beam, wielded by a performer, that bounced off the lighting grid above us, falling back down in jumpy fragments of light.
At nightfall, victorious militiamen hoisted the twisted metal casings of shells that struck the city, and cast a dim flashlight to give visitors a look into an unlit dungeon packed with dust-caked dispirited prisoners from the attacking warlord's rabble.
Take a DIM flashlight, your jug, and fill ONE bucket with water, and go to the area you roped off earlier and SLOWLY pour the mixture on the grass.
Your now ready for the dimmest flashlight yet!
"You could see the dim glow of flashlights along the sidewalks, but not the people holding them," he said.
He insisted that the lights be dimmed and that flashlights be given to his guests, who groped and gaped their way from case to case.
Everybody compromises, I assured myself as I tried to grill chicken kebobs by the dim glow of a flashlight.
Last Friday, just before morning prayers opened the day at Maslakh, Mir Ali used the dim glow of his flashlight to see how his ailing 1-year-old son, Abdullah, had fared during the night.
A flashlight dimmed with tape was used sparingly.
And when mitochondria falter, cells lose power, just as a flashlight dims when its batteries weaken.
