She imagines a sailing green prism, and thinks of "Blade Runner" and "the small flying cars that Harrison Ford uses": "It is absolutely no surprise that at this point we have the picture of a luminous green prism sailing in through the dark and taking an exalted place on our retina, a bit like when you've been staring too hard at a lamp on the ceiling and then close your eyes!
While a $400 light bulb is a hard sell, a lamp like Fluxo is pretty compelling.
Repair professionals use alcohol lamps and hard sticks of colored lacquers, melted and mixed to match the finish.
In the 2003 book, "In the Kingdom of Coal," Dan Rottenberg wrote that as a teenager Mr. Leisenring was "permanently smitten" with the miners and "their soot-covered faces, hard hats and cap lamps".
The need for better illumination that accompanied the increasing development of urban centres made it necessary to search for new sources of oil, especially since whales, which had long provided fuel for lamps, were becoming harder and harder to find.
Tea lights in little holders make excellent marker points through a garden for special occasions, and a good old-fashioned hurricane lamp is hard to beat.
She said that the ceiling lamps swung so hard, like pendulums, that she thought they might have hit the ceiling.
When the bartenders disappeared, the workers took over, bringing up cases of wine from the basement, the lamps on their hard hats winking in the darkness.
Then the sandhogs mounted hydraulic drills and bored a ten-foot-deep hole into each mark, their arms and legs rattling up and down, the lamps on their hard hats shaking.
At Conakry's airport, where students gather to study in the evenings under the glow of some of the city's only functioning street lamps, it was hard to find anyone who disagreed.
