"It's physically exhausting being gassed night after night," one young woman said.
Empathetic glimpses of Aryan's adolescent yearnings commingle with forays into the downright surreal: Aryan and Kabir are treated to an American-financed shopping spree in Paris, depicted here as a Wonderland-like oasis of mixed messages, where humanitarians dispense free meals by day and the police lob tear gas by night.
Mr. Ahmad is wanted in Connecticut on charges of running militant Islamic Web sites that the authorities say were used to recruit and raise money for terrorists and to serve as a conduit for supplies of gas masks, night vision goggles and other equipment to terrorist groups.
We had to burn gas every night to stay airborne, and every day, I was afraid that we would fall short of gas.
"In our conscienceless childhood days we ripped the backs from the kitchen chairs and made sledges from them; we drove nails into the wooden kerb — the King's Kerb!" Of course, it's really the father who is owed the debt, and in closing this very short, very pointed story, Frame imagines his own list: "Back, shrapnel in; lungs, remains of gas in; nights, nightmares in; days, memories in".
Smoke shells, filled with white phosphorus, were adopted for screening the activities of troops; illuminating shells, containing magnesium flares suspended by parachutes, illuminated the battlefield at night; gas shells, filled with various chemicals such as chlorine or mustard gas, were used against troops; incendiary shells were developed for setting fire to hydrogen-filled zeppelins.
In Moscow in October 1917, Irène, safely ensconced in the Hotel Metropol, thrills as she watches street lamps decapitated by gunfire, spurting "streams of burning gas in the dark night".
"We talked about not being passive, about keeping our foot on the gas pedal all night.
We weren't concerned about going to the gas station at night", he said.
The police have reacted forcefully to protesters, in some instances using tear gas, Tasers and night sticks.
