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Some Wodehouse lines are like time bombs, detonating with a momentary delay.

Edison reported to the state’s regulatory commission that four of its lines over Eaton Canyon saw a momentary surge of electrical current at about the same time the fire ignited.

"It's not worth the momentary fun versus stress for potentially the rest of your life," she says.

Edison said in February that its lines over Eaton Canyon saw a momentary increase of electrical current about the same time as the fire began.

But this momentary interruption in the normal order hardly matters because the ensemble is so comfortably aligned in the theatrical universe that Godwin has created.