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“During hours of burning the wood inside is transformed, reworked. Water and hydrocarbons are expelled in what seems like slow torture, the process of pyrolysis. With only a small drip of oxygen entering the kiln, the hazel inside does not burn away, but is forced to keep its shape and take the pain. I sometimes think burning it to ash would be kinder.”
― Ben Short, Burn: A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing