Yet one wonders: where is God in this deadly nest of wasps and conferences on violence and copious tears; this place at the end of the world?
Unlike the New World, "Europe was not a place of copious and conspicuous mélange," Doc said.
"Get a lot of blokes together in one place, add copious quantities of subsidised alcohol and the fact that homes/wives/partners are far away, and it's not surprising that the atmosphere is more public school than public service," she added.
Copious note-taking took place throughout discussions by a trained note-taker who was seated near a circle of girls.
"All on Fire" was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998, and The Times Book Review called it "A copious, dramatic biography, charged with place and situation, of the fiery abolitionist newspaper editor".
This produces another of Oskar's copious dossiers documenting the places he visits and the people he meets.
Unable to remember anything for more than a minute or two, he photographs and labels crucial people and places, keeps copious notes and has pertinent facts tattooed all over his body.
They talk of the "pharmacy shoppers" who call up, give no name, and wonder if the place has oddly copious quantities of a narcotic painkiller, usually oxycodone.
He seems desperate to use his astonishing and copious research to the full, placing on record what, to the best of my knowledge, nobody else is recording.
I can't see things turning out well in the abortion clinic, a place of darkness and copious weeping … But, what's this?
