While in Ecuador, they managed to capture on film the eruption of the Tungurahua ("throat of fire") volcano in Baños.
They killed them by shooting, by halal, as we say" — Fridoun drew an imaginary knife across his throat — "by fire, by boiling water, and even by driving nails into heads".
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 percussion stops — she drops to her knees, throws her head back, and pushes a flaming stick deep into her throat, extinguishing the fire with her lips.
My lungs were burning, I was coughing and spitting; my throat was on fire.
When Laila's boyfriend kisses her, she feels her "heart pounding in her throat... a fire burning in the pit of her belly".
Since the Brazilians saw all human beings "as halves of one another… they found it strange that these poverty-stricken halves should suffer such injustice, and that they did not take the others by the throat or set fire to their houses".
Perhaps the earliest example of cultural relativism, it contains a germ of socialism, too: what the visitors found strangest about France was its inequality; they were astonished that the poverty-stricken half did not take the rich by the throat "or set fire to their houses".
"Your throat catches on fire a little bit, you might even start coughing.
In order to obtain the reliable parameters of pore and throat, the Avizo Fire analysis software is used to analysis the sample's micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) images.
