Wire in the Blood

[horselady]

What does the title actually mean?

[tiny e.a]

According to Wikipedia:

'The title of the series is taken from a line in T.S. Eliot's poem Burnt Norton, one of the Four Quartets.'

The poems here, second stanza, don't know what it means though!

http://www.tristan.icom43.net/quartets/norton. html

[gettinblurry]

There's a bit more info here, doesn't really clear things up though!

http://www.valmcdermid.com/pages/tvseries.html


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[horselady]

Thanks both of you. It's an odd phrase isn't it?

[tiny e.a]

Yeah it is, I always get it mixed up and call it Blood on the Wire accidently!

[Mattk]

I always assumed it was something to do with The Thing. In the movie a guy heats a wire and places it in a sample of blood to find out who is the alien/bad guy.

[Yorky Lass]

I Googled this:-
In an interview Robson Green said the phrase "wire in the blood" was taken to mean a genetic kink, something impure and unusual in the blood, that leads to the kind of psychosis Hill might deal with.
Val McDermid (the author) says: 'Who knows what Eliot really meant by that line? Robson's explanation is as good as any... For myself, I've always taken it to be a metaphor for the thrill of adrenaline surging through the bloodstream. But we'll never know for sure".

[lynbrown]

We talk about people being 'wired' when they are pumped up with adrenanline.