I emerged broken, empty and forever changed but alive.
And armies of demolition workers are breaking into empty houses to sleep on undamaged second floors.
"I was a teen-ager when I started breaking into empty houses," she said one day as they lay in bed.
Club culture has come a long way since Norman Jay was breaking into empty houses in west London to hold his first parties.
Handsome ragamuffin Tae-suk (Jae Hee) prowls the streets on his motorbike, breaking into empty houses wherein he lives for a few days, enjoying their unfamiliar hospitality which he repays with tenderly executed oddjobs - fixing clocks, watering the plants, doing the laundry etc.
The murderers hid in the dense forests, breaking into empty hunting cabins that became supply depots for supplies like camouflage pants, maps, tools, bug repellent and even Pop Tarts, officials said.
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.
"I'd rather be broken than empty," she quavers.
The site was strewn with discarded clothes, broken bottles, empty malt liquor cans and condom wrappers.
Such are the cargoes of Anselm Kiefer's recent paintings, littered with flotillas of broken, wallowing, empty vessels - lead ships on painted seas.
