"Whereas Stuxnet just had one purpose in life, Flame is a toolkit, so they can go after just about everything they can get their hands on".
The resultant downpour did not seem to quench the genius of Quincy Jones: "Music roared through him, set his soul on fire, and for the rest of his life those flames blazed as if fed dry tinder".
Everything needed studs and anything worth saying was worth inking across your chest, and knuckles, for the rest of your life (wings, flames, and fair maidens with big jugs all optional add-ons).
While the emissions to land tended to originate mainly from the application of contaminated sewage sludge, the main emissions to air came during service life of flame-retarded products in the form of release from the indoor environment, steel industry and the accidental fires of waste.
They would set bonfires on hill tops to remind each other of the capacity of life's flame to renew itself even in the darkest times.
One anonymous critic proclaimed that Beethoven, a "son of the gods," had "brought the holy, life-giving flame directly from heaven".
"At some point I realized that my father found his life up in flames, just as the city found itself in flames," says Toles. "It's like he was a living personification of the city, with his own version of 1967 happening inside of him.
And while none of these inventions was as important to him as less sophisticated forms of entertainment, such as staring at the fire and imagining pictures leaping into life, once flickering flames were replaced by the flickering images of cinema, his fiction quickly found a new home.
For the playwright Steven Sater the idea of having one's life altered by flames is intensely personal.
"The fire got so fierce the workmen decided he had to get out of there and he ran for his life through the flames," Tiller told the Advertiser.
