He dug out his old schoolbag, hidden in the linen closet, emptied it of all its papers and documents, including his diploma, made a small pile in the sink, and burned them.
(When Kate objects to their moving he shouts, "I have to do this as a man!") But he is sent back to his old life alone, and that's when he realizes how empty it all is.
Now when I read the kiss-and-tell stories in tabloids, I'm grateful that I got out when I did - that I saw how empty it all was.
RN - yes that's why she wanted the trial now, while she's still here TL - well if you wait for the 24 hours to see if she keeps it then that's Wednesday, so Wednesday evening you're going to have to have some kind of discussion with the husband about how to empty it, wash around it, all of that...can she wash herself?
With the dim lighting, somber atmosphere, gloomy music, black benches and empty walls, it all may be read as a wake for traditional painting or, more broadly, for some golden age of humanist feeling and imagination.
Cables and wires stuck out of the ceilings but due to the grand empty space it all seemed to be clean and ordered.
A lot of how people feel about it, though certainly not all, is a classic glass half full vs. half empty argument: It all depends on whether you tend to see things in a positive or negative light, and whether you are optimistic that progressives can build on what's good about this in the future, or whether you think that's false optimism given the power of the insurance industry.
In "The Generation Gap," a more conventionally constructed story about a 67-year-old paterfamilias who leaves his wife of 42 years for a young violinist he has met on a plane (only, of course, to be abandoned in his turn), Gordimer reprises the image: "Death is a blank mirror, emptied of all it has seen and shown," the man says at the story's close.
My mom's been wanting it back and after two years of nagging I decided to return it, emptied all the little pockets, then turned it upside down and guess what fell out?
Clear your mind and empty it of all thoughts.
