But Chuck had another idea: he chomped the mayor's left hand, piercing his leather gloves.
He wrote to Alec of a crucifix he once saw, with the figure of God hovering behind the dying Christ: "The nails that pierce the Son's hands pierce the Father's also: the thorn-crowned head of the Dying Saviour is seen to be lying upon the Father's bosom.
He is writing to his favorite, Alec, who has been having a spot of sexual trouble at school: "The nails that pierce the Son's hands pierce the Father's also: the thorn-crowned head of the Dying Savior is seen to be lying upon the Father's bosom.
If you're right handed, pierce your left hand, so that you can still write and do everything you normally do, and vice versa if you're left handed.
When a comedy hand pierces the balloon, the reaction of the competitors in an annual Rube Goldberg Machine contest at Purdue University in Indiana could only have been more fevered had they landed their device on the moon.
Hold the onion with your free hand, pierce it with the tip of the knife near the root end, then push the rest of the knife down through the onion.
The first is of the lamp in a movie projector being ignited, and then there are brief cuts from very early films, and shots and images from some of Bergman's own work (the spider, for example, represents the vision in Through a Glass Darkly of God as a spider, and there is a hand being pierced by a nail, and the spike fence from the opening nightmare in Wild Strawberries).
Your hands are pierced with needle-marks and covered in scratches, your blood is all over the work table, but still, you keep sewing.
Describing her work, she said: "Your hands are pierced and scratched by sewing needles, your blood spread across the table, but you are still trying to sew, because you are part of a conveyor production.
Happily Nicola Sturgeon, the deputy first minister, was on hand to pierce the monotony with an electrifying Friday matinee performance.
