When Edmund confronts him, the stranger tells a mad story: long ago he killed a man where he and Edmund now stand, and he has been doomed to wander ever since.
Like "gabble ratchet" (corpse hound), it may refer to the belief that the souls of unbaptised children were doomed to wander in nightjar form until Judgement Day.
The company's power, for Jarvis, is simply and happily messianic: Ignore it, and you're doomed to wander the digital hinterlands.
Like Sean Penn's Jack in The Tree of Life, Malick's characters are doomed to wander an inhospitable world, haunted by the memories of their past.
The answer Le Passé gives can be summed up in a single word: chaos – the realization that in a world bereft of God, spirituality, love, truth, or moral ideals, humans are doomed to perpetual wandering and wondering in an ocean of complete solitude with no beacon to lead them to the shore of certainty.
Is this enough time for sightseeing or am I doomed to wander the corridors and gift shops waiting for the hours to tick by? Alastair Kleissner, South Wales A Lucky you.
Is this enough time for sightseeing or am I doomed to wander the corridors and gift shops waiting for the hours to tick by? Alastair Kleissner, Cardiff A. Lucky you.
If you've got loans from private lenders, then I'm sorry, but you're pretty much doomed to wander the earth in ashes and sackcloth.
Or is it destined, doomed, to wander?
