They have a machine for breaking empty liquor bottles, in conformation with some kind of ruling.
I emerged broken, empty and forever changed but alive.
The two societies are heading not toward conflict, then, but toward convergence in a clueless co-dependency on the same juggernaut that's already dissolving the American republic and that will break the empty materialism and increasingly hollow command of Singapore's rulers, who tout "Asian" values but are really just Asian Mad Men clinging desperately to some Ivy on their long way down.
Any work that didn't involve lifting was a respite: breaking down empty boxes to take to the trash compactor, sweeping and mopping the storeroom floor.
They see the change as a clear and irrevocable move, a break from empty promises.
Let and Run: Con artists break into empty properties and then rent them out as their own to unsuspecting tenants, who hand over large sums of money as a deposit and rent.
Trying their luck in the breaking waves was a pack of about six surfers, leaving the break virtually empty compared with other Indonesian spots, which can easily attract 30 or more wave-hungry riders.
Take out the garbage and recycling, break down empty boxes, dump the dirty laundry that needs to go in a hamper, toss those moldy flowers and long dead plants, gather all the coffee cups and stash them in the dishwasher.
It includes portions of wall-to-wall carpet, broken chairs, empty beer cans, mirrors both broken and not, burnt candles and sprinklings of packing material, cut ribbon and tissue paper, as well as a few pieces of relatively innocent-looking children's art.
These promises are left not broken, but empty.
"I'd rather be broken than empty," she quavers.
