Banded with steel and coiled with thickrope at the ends, the Oak weighed four hundred and fifty-nine pounds it took five large men to carry it onstage.
She felt around in the blocked sink with her rubber gloves, poking into the plughole with the toothbrush, pulling at the ends of the fibres caught in the trap, tugging and coaxing until she began to deliver up out of the drain a nasty mass, a thickrope of hair and soap and matted insulation, in a gulp of bad drain smell.