核心畫面

A good way to hold this word is to take its two parts apart. Flash is something catching light all at once, and point is the exact spot on a scale. Put together, one picture covers the whole entry: the point at which a thing that has been warming quietly finally lights. In a laboratory that point is a temperature, written on the side of a can of oil. Moved onto human life, the same picture describes a place that has been tense for years and needs only a spark, and it describes the second in an evening when the shouting finally starts. In every use, nothing is burning yet a moment before, and everything is a moment after.