To meet Bindel socially, as I have several times, is to be bombarded with warmth, like a soft, cuddly toy dropping down in an arcade: pale blue eyes, kind and sparkly, a dusty voice calling you darling and a filthy laugh that could earn dearly on a sex-line should the whole writing thing go up in flames (and, of course, if she didn't deem sex work a violent byproduct of oppression).
Debo, the youngest and the one most bruised by her older sisters' notoriety, is seen as inheriting her mother's role as mediator, keeper of the Mitford peace and flame, and of course as the chatelaine of the great Derbyshire house, Chatsworth, which she and her husband rescued from the rigors of taxation and dilapidation by turning it into a highly paying proposition.
I know there is Zaireeka by The Flaming Lips of course, which was all their own music rather than collaborative or involving other bands and as well as that people have been spinning two records together for a long time in hip-hop of course, and just the act of DJing in itself is a precursor to this.
They also do strange things with leaf blowers, ladders, straitjackets and, of course, flames.
And of course flames, projected onto the jutting planks of the machine, form the ring of fire with which Wotan surrounds Brünnhilde when, as her punishment for disobeying him and trying to save Siegmund, he strips her of her godly powers and puts her to sleep.
The lighting of the Olympic flame cuts the mustard, of course, but that is genuinely iconic.
The Reds could further clean house and deal outfielder Jay Bruce, and, of course, flame-throwing (that's a literal description) closer Aroldis Chapman.
The bulk of the concrete-encased living area is unseen from the outside, though the modest, visible facade takes full advantage of the outdoors, with a spread of windows that looks out onto a cozy patio (with a flame-heated hot tub, of course) and killer views of the mountains.
"Land of poetry!" "Land of flames!" They didn't say, of course, that Azerbaijan is also a land of repression.
As the Salina family are faced with upheaval in 19th-century Sicily, Lampedusa gives his reader plenty of bitter food for thought: "Of course, love: flames for a year, ashes for 30".
