A cauldron was lit, from which the torch will be reignited for its final ceremony on home soil.
He realised they should be not be too precise, apparently suspended between light, from which they were born, and darkness, which swallowed up the superfluous or perhaps ridiculous.
Look at photographs of Victorian asylums, or Todd Browning's Freaks, or John Huston's documentary about the war jitters, Let There Be Light, from which Anderson drew inspiration, and you will see the same faces staring back: startled, slightly haunted, ahistorical.
"I find the story of Christianity convincing," he writes, "precisely because it begins with a great blinding light, from which men stumble only gradually, their eyes still dazzled, toward more coherent attempts to understand what happened to them".
Ms. Nichols's account of it was, as ever, clean, strict, full: accepting her fate, arching that glorious torso and opening herself to the light from which there is no return.
In addition to Disney-esque plastic riding figures — including a giraffe, a deer, a cow and a frighteningly animated crescent moon — it has an arched, vertical framework dotted by blinking lights from which effigies of children dangle like angels.
Sickert's San Marco is leadenly, massily pinioned to the insecure earth on which is it is built – and this is in spite of the fact that Sickert is clearly striving to make the building look and feel fantastically airy, almost as if, as with Monet, he is seeking to demonstrate that it was light from which it had been conjured in the first place.
It seemed like heaven to me: beans and weenies from paper plates, black-fingered tinkerings on the back stoop as the sun set, on an upturned fruitcrate a little jamjar of rye like ancient light, from which, once, I took a single, secret sip, my eyes tearing and my throat on fire.
The advantage of this approach is that blue LEDs are the brightest, most energy-efficient kind.Existing white LEDs are also based on blue ones, the light from which is used to excite a phosphor layer made of yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG).
The intra-cavity dispersion compensation is achieved by a grating pair, the spatial dispersed light from which also have optical spectrum filtering effects combined with the limited aperture of the fiber core.
