Missfired brick
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- fire: to shoot a missile from a gun → misfire = to shoot wildly → the Black Stone as a missile misfired from Heaven and knocking Tim Finnegan off his ladder → cubehouse
- fire: to bake a brick so as to harden it → a misfired brick crumbled causing Tim Finnegan to fall from the edifice he was building
- Miss Fire → Issy, whose voice is transmitted down the chimney flue from her dormer room upstairs to the fireplace in HCE's bedroom → avoice from afire (FW 003.09)
- Clay: a misfired brick would presumably still be clay, hence religous myths of man fassioned from clay → if only we where made of a more eternal substance
