For another, Maxon is worryingly far from home, and like any other human who's been carried beyond the Earth's gravitational pull, "a few pulsing cells" inside a "crazy little splinter of metal," he may not make it back to terra firma, much less return in time to drive Sunny to the delivery room.
The visually fearsome Faust were of course delightful in person, and after their performance drummer Werner Zappii" Diermaier, who only moments before had been aiming splinters of hot metal into the eyes of scared old-age pensioners, told me he was hoping to find time to head into the sphagnum bogs of the Highlands to seek out natterjack toads and great crested newts.
As these stresses affected the curvature of the belt until it became flat; the heavy corrosion resulted in flaking and splintering of the metal into small fragments.
He was thrown sideways by a pressure wave so powerful that he was killed instantly, even before the splinters of glass and metal hit him.
He was pointing to empty spaces — and a barber pole and a couple of chairs — in a landscape of splinters and metal rubble.
Walls protrude at angles, windows jut out in splinters of light, and huge metal sheets drape the exterior.
Hot Pursuit is a game of millimetre escapes and of awesome, high-speed pile-ups that are Ballardian in their lustful depiction of splintering metal.
Sonography allows detection of a variety of soft-tissue foreign bodies, including wood splinters, glass, metal, and plastic, along with evaluation of their associated soft-tissue complications [11].
It's an orgy of metal and bone and splintered wood.
Tar paper, insulation, gnarled bits of metal, crumpled siding, plastic, splintered wood — some brought by the wind all the way from Tuscaloosa, 60 miles southwest of here.
