Then, the big one: the end of Act II, when a character leaves a lit pipe in the basement and accidentally sets off a year's worth of firecrackers.
And Maigret's process means poking around: strolling the boulevards with a lit pipe in hand, ducking in and out of neighbourhoods to feel the pulse of a place at dawn and dusk, sampling a herring fillet or a home-style cassoulet at a local cafe.
My seventh-grade English teacher, whose nickname was Ashcan, was famous for having once set his tweed jacket on fire by absent-mindedly stuffing a lit pipe on top of a book of matches in his pocket; he was also famous for having once become trapped, flat on his back, between his desk and the rear wall of the classroom, after tipping too far in his chair.
I got my pipe lit, and wandered down into the woods, toward the clearing where the boys had stumbled over the dead man, following a rough trail that the police had found.
You will need to puff every 10 or 20 seconds or so, to consistently keep the pipe lit.
The Internet was causing an explosion in demand for bandwidth, and Qwest had 3,250 miles of dark pipe, 900 miles of lit fiber, rights-of-way for 5,300 miles more and $1.5 billion in long-term contracts to lay fiber for WorldCom and Frontier.
The Internet was causing an explosion in demand for bandwidth, and Qwest had 5,250 kilometers of dark pipe, 1,500 kilometers of lit fiber, rights-of-way for 8,550 kilometers more and $1.5 billion in long-term contracts to lay fiber for WorldCom and Frontier.
"Detropia" has its share of forlorn images: office buildings with empty eye sockets for windows; idle, rotting factories, with fantastic networks of chutes, pipes, and stacks; a lone lit tavern on a dark block.
Place a lit match or lighter on top of the pipe bowl, and gently draw in, making the flame pass through, thus burning, the "spice".
It is carefully tended by waiters who mill about the brightly lit parlors with bits of hot charcoal that, once placed in the pipe, keep the tobacco burning.
Google calls their data centers "Where the internet lives," and you've probably seen the photos of vast rooms housing brand-colored water pipes and cables, and rows of spaceship-like LED lit servers.
