excerpt from "Project Escape!"

"Now for the important stuff: I need you to pull one hair from your head, preferably it should be a foot in length. Thread it through the eye of a magnetized needle. Then dangle the needle by the opposite end of the hair over a large fig leaf filled with ionized water. If you see sparks then start over, but if you don’t then you should revel in your achievement, for you have just created a conduit to transmit electrons. And transmit you shall, for two days while I make the escape"

-Hannah, June 2002