 What do the jumbled clay strips represent?
Through the barred windows of the workshop, rolling green hills were seen, their tree-studded flanks making a pleasant setting for the mental institution. She stopped behind a frowning, intense patient, rapidly shaping blobs of clay into odd-sized strips and forms. As he finished each piece, he carefully placed it into a hollow shell hemisphere of clay. At the clay table, Funston feverishly fabricated the last odd-shaped bit of clay and slapped it into place. At the clay table, she carefully lifted the top half of the clay ball and stared thoughtfully at the jumbled maze of clay strips laced through the lower hemisphere.
 Wires and circuitry from a bomb
 Thaddeus' way of labeling his creation  Wires and circuitry from a bomb  The discarded clay from his process  Rivers on a globe of the Earth