The surprise is evidently mutual, and the bird soars away at an acute angle, jerking upwards as a kite might do as it finally catches the wind.
Meanwhile, the ground jerked upwards with a peak acceleration of 1.2g more than enough to toss buildings and bridges into the air before sending them crashing to the ground.
It was then he saw Allende through an open door, he said, just as the president's body jerked upwards with the force of the blast.
Here, from the original paper in Gastroenterology in 1979 is part of the case report: "There was an explosion which was audible in the endoscopy room, the patient jerked upwards off the endoscopy table, and the colonoscope was completely ejected".
A medium that Benjamin hoped would encourage listeners to think for themselves now addressed the masses collectively, and in response expected only an arm jerked upwards and a choral chant of "Heil!" Radio Benjamin is published by Verso (£20).
They are wrong to be so confident: paleo-climatic evidence shows that temperatures have jerked upwards sharply in the past, possibly because of methane burps arising from the melting of the organic matter currently trapped in permafrost.
Years before, in a Paris gallery, Hustvedt had found her arm jerking upwards, and her body slamming into a wall: a convulsion that led to a year-long migraine for which she was eventually hospitalised and given anti-psychotic drugs ("vascular migraine syndrome," said the medical profession, in the same tone as, once, doctors might have asked nurse to pass the smelling salts).
The package is dropped over the side of the boat and lowered to the required depth and then the line is jerked upwards.
"In that instant, water splashed on Ms. Giraldo, startling her, causing her to jerk with an upwards motion, colliding with Mr. Monserrate's hand, causing him to fall backwards onto the floor".
