The youth director is also trying to get a new archery club off the ground, at which kids will learn the science, mathematics and engineering concepts that surround bows, be it the tensility of the wood they are constructed from or the trajectory and ballistic force of an arrow once it’s launched from the string.

Lacking the color, grain and organic tensility of wood, both pieces have a dull, leaden appearance made worse by waxy, lumpy, greenish-brown surfaces.

Stronger by mass than steel and more durable and flexible than Kevlar, they are also alive to ambient conditions and made to adapt and retain their tensility as humidity and temperature change.

The attempt blurs Kesey's view of his real theme�the weakness of the strong and the persistent tensility of the weak.

From a great distance he could see that the switch was shoved up; only by breaking a steel band of superb tensility could the alien creature have pushed that switch up, for Pink carried the key to the band on his master ring, hanging at his belt.