Night Vision W. Maguire copyright 2016 When I was a kid I answered an ad for a job working as an electricians assistant. The old man….almost 35… asked me what I knew about voltage and amps and circuits. In a rare moment of candor I stared hard at him…all of 14…and said “Nothin’. He nodded and gave me the job. That summer he tried to teach me why electricity was the greatest power on earth...because for the most part it ran unseen in the dark through wires and delivered us light. To him to it was almost as if it was stolen from God. We spent about a month that summer changing out substandard wires in some townhouses. A couple had caught fire from some faulty wiring and the insurance company wanted it pulled. One day I had some of the wire we had torn out in hand. It looked perfectly intact to me. So I asked how I could recognize the flaws. He gazed at me for a long moment then finally said- “Every bit of wire ev
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