Every year during the last week of August, several thousand geeks, pyrotechnics, Goths, hippies and hip yuppies descend on the Nevada desert for a week to burn a 50ft effigy of a man, constructed from wood and neon, and stuffed with fireworks.
Here's a funny bit from Jess Walter's novel "Beautiful Ruins," another book I have been telling friends to read: "The first impression one gets of Michael Deane is of a man constructed of wax, or perhaps prematurely embalmed.
Dredging up Mr Cameron's eight-year-old depiction of UKIP members as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists", the UKIP man constructed a narrative for viewers of the BBC News channel.
Johnny R. is a man constructed of violence.
Another man constructed an engagement ring out of a silver coin earlier this year.
The geometric focal point of the gathering is the Man, constructed of wood and steel, to be burned on Saturday night, in the culmination of the week-long festival.
My aim was to talk to the men constructing the silos for the American cruise missiles stationed there, to help them understand the seriousness of what they were doing.
Jewish law is a world constructed by men, for men and primarily about men.
Robot men constructed using architectonic principles – they are more like buildings than people.
One of the men constructed a small model of the canoe with exquisite details, right down to the smallest piece of rigging and tiniest carvings.
Harrington's last sentence contains the classic straw-man construct — no one has suggested that not winning the Masters would constitute a failure or detract from his victories in the last two majors.
