There's a book that I sometimes teach that I recommend. I bring it up because it's a good book, but also because in it there are a couple of references to a "live wire edge", which is a term many of us know.

The book, If He Hollers, Let Him Go, is by Chester Himes. It was published in 1945. The story is about a black man who is accused of rape by a blonde lady who also works at the shipyard.

It's a struggle for the man to be himself in a time where a black man had a hard time achieving any power.

That struggle brings about the tension that is described in the term "live wire edge" where the blade can be too sharp, so sharp that it's not a good shave.

Just thought I'd share.

Bones