Accompanied only by a cockroach, WALL-E trolls among the detritus of the vanished culture; the junk items he finds become fetishes for him.
He trolls among the detritus of the vanished culture, fetishizing such junk items as plastic forks, hubcaps, and a tape of the lumbering musical "Hello, Dolly!," which provides him with models of human connection and such oddities as singing and dancing.
Mice are abundant on beaches due to the greater availability of seal and seabird faeces, carcasses and related detritus as food items and as centers of high productivity [24].
But it's often the small hand-made items, rather than the grim military detritus of war, that resonate in his mind.
Other items have simply been lost among the space's detritus, perplexing organizers when they turn up during a survey of inventory: a baby mannequin, a George Foreman grill, a board-game version of "The $25,000 Pyramid" ("based on the highly rated TV show," the box reads, beside a grinning Dick Clark).
Crammed into a space the size of a lift and surrounded by curiosity-shop detritus, the sextet paw and file not only at guitars and banjos but also various found items: suitcases, bellows, spaghetti.
Violet and Bobby kept bringing home decidedly unnatural items — a thick sheet of white plastic, a soiled hand towel, artificial Easter grass — weaving the detritus into a spiral of branches on the sandstone ledge.
The observed prey items were grouped into two categories, namely benthic prey (trichoptera, gastropods, isopods, chironomid larvae, bryozoans, algae and detritus) and pelagic prey (cladocerans, copepods, water mites, ostracods, rotifers, and chaoborid larvae).
Detritus is heaped all around.
