And why "Kicking Clay"? In the 1920's, across Canada, young men were hired to dig the necessary tunnels for new electrical and telephone wires. They dug these tunnels with their feet - using special shoes with little shovels on the ends. When the war started, their technique took on new possibilities and they were sent off to "the front" to dig tunnels for things like recorders and bombs.
I suppose I'm imagining writers to be a bit like these "clay kickers", burrowing beneath daily life, laying electricity and detonations at will...
We can always hope.
