This Is Burning Man by Brian Doherty

Author:Brian Doherty [DOHERTY, BRIAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316028929
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

In 1998, the Man did not so much burn as explode. For the second year in a row, the Man was lit by an actual human being set on fire, who ran up the stack of straw bales the Man was standing on by then and grabbed the statue and ignited it. Kimric Smythe had been a bit excessive that year, larding the Man with lots of military-grade explosives, illumination grenades, magnesium, and the like. The flaming human inadvertently lit not just the wood but some fusing, and for some reason nearly every goddamn explosive stuffed in the Man went off at once and this transcendent apparition burst forth, a sun-white cloud of roiling smoke twice as wide and quite a bit taller than the Man. We all held our breath, and it was a miraculous, patriotic moment that after that cataclysm Our Man Was Still There, standing and burning, not reduced to splinters.

The man on fire looked up and saw the Man exploding and ran for his life down the steps of the bales and toward the safety crew that was supposed to put him out. The safety crew, meanwhile, was running away from the explosion and away from him, so the flaming man chased them, an angry ghost. (He was put out safely before the protective coating burned away.)

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