His most recent album, "Fire in the Mind" (Ruf), released last fall, applied a broad global palette to the blues.
A house is "no home" for a woman, Fuller declared, "unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body".
A fire of the mind is invoked, and this is what We must live with as the century raises itself On crippled limbs to proclaim victory.
"They say in every library there is a book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind".
It's about lighting a fire in the mind (and maybe the belly too).
But the key fire passage in the Burning Bush speech - "We have lit a fire as well; a fire in the minds of men" - actually has its origins in a novel by the 19th century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils, about a group of terrorists' ineffectual struggle to bring down the tyrannical Tsarist regime.
In this battle the whole material universe is, through the entities, potentially enrolled, the Bounteous Spirit being the patron of humankind, Asha of fire, the Good Mind of the Ox, the Dominion of the metals, Aramaiti of the earth, Integrity and Immortality of the waters and plants.
"The key fire passage in the burning Bush speech" came from Dostoevsky's The Devils: "We have lit a fire as well; a fire in the minds of men".
Stories around a fire helped develop the mind, just as fire for cooked food fuelled the body.
He tries to fire the dormant minds of the elderly with accounts of the achievements of some notable sneescents.
