"I've got a very moving letter from him there," he says, gesturing towards the coffee table, where letters of sympathy or condolence – or whatever it is you send someone who's dying – are strewn.
It is an image from the pre-history of photography; hundreds, perhaps thousands, of helmeted and turbaned warriors hack at each other with swords from atop their rearing steeds, in a boiling tangle on a rocky, barren field with dead and dying men and horses strewn about — a picture you can almost hear and smell, but in the thick of which you cannot really see what exactly is going on.
These are the disaster-strewn, dying days of the Age of the Nerds.
Wood recorded that the memory of the battlefield carnage — the hills and ravines "thickly strewn with dead & dying" — will "send a chill thro' me to my latest day".
Many animals had died of dehydration, and carcasses were strewn on the ground.
And the fields beyond the town were strewn with the several dead and dying among their possessions.
One of the earliest works in the show, inspired by a gay friend and mentor who had AIDS and was dying, began as torn scraps of tar paper strewn across the floor of Mr. Hodges' studio.
After all, the American public condones the Indianapolis automobile race every year where we know in advance that the racecourse will be strewn with the dead and the dying before the day's proceedings are terminated.
Despite being heir to a fortune estimated at $40 million, he took up with a cigarette girl, died a wastrel and was cremated, his ashes strewn at sea.
When the jet struck at the edge of a compound, where munitions were being stored, one, or possibly two, men died; only little pieces of them were left, strewn around.
