Very soon, a bearded dead man turns up in the woods, nailed to a tree, arms outstretched, wearing a crown of barbed wire (nice modern twist, that).
In one particularly striking image, Dave stands before a tree, arms out and eyes shut, dreaming of black folk whose ghostly faces fill the branches behind him.
Then they bound her between two trees, arms and legs tied apart.
As the grownups snored through the hot summer afternoons in rooms cooled with dampened, sweet-smelling vetiver shades, we climbed up the mango trees, armed with a ground mixture of salt, pepper, red chilies, and roasted cumin.
As for the fight itself, Ali risked destruction by using slackened ropes to lean eccentrically out of reach, back arched, rendering him intermittently safe from the oak-tree arms of the hitherto unbeaten Foreman, draining George's strength and self-belief until he picked the right moment to launch his quicksilver raid on the crude ogre's chin.
For each possible outcome or decision-tree-arm and for each treatment option, the corresponding probabilities of transition were estimated.
The man hugs a tree limb with one arm.
In primates, the combination of opposing thumbs, short fingernails (rather than claws) and long, inward-closing fingers is a relict of the ancestral practice of gripping branches, and has, in part, allowed some species to develop brachiation (swinging by the arms from tree limb to tree limb) as a significant means of locomotion.
Her master caught her, tied her hands together and hoisted her by her arms from a tree branch so that her feet did not touch the ground.
The photograph shows a 32-year-old man with short black hair, standing under a tree, his arm around his 9-year-old daughter.
He remembered being with her under the tree, his arms around her. Maybe he led her there, maybe he really did force her.
