Here's why… Dawn, during the spring and summer months, brings something incredible to our cities – emptiness.
As far as the eye can see, a cornucopia of organic wheat, cereals, sunflowers, pulses and legumes has been turned into a vista of emptiness.
A man on the ground and someone holding a paper and, over there, a row of houses plonked down on the emptiness.
If nothing else, spending small amounts of time away from him would be good training for the moment he moves out, when we're left to confront the unrelenting emptiness of our lives and pour all our attention into a succession of crap hobbies.
Recognising the emptiness of claims for "Keynesian" fiscal stimulation is a start.
The film's subject-matter could not be grimmer, yet Lang enlivens grey emptiness with an Otto Dix-like burlesque energy.
He just sits there, peering across an emptiness which is like a vast desert or the sea.
In a world where the human race accumulates more information every five minutes than exists in the entire US Library of Congress, emptiness and silence are the new luxuries.
They long to be independent, to get away from the place where everyone knows their business, to escape "the sins of the Midwest, the flatness, the emptiness, the necessary acceptance of the familiar".
But Ms Smith twists her plot so subtly (impossible to explain here) that it is precisely Archie's emptiness, his lack of rhyme or reason, his habit of making decisions by the flip of a coin, that carry the day.
He plans to reopen an abandoned corner shop near the garden as a community centre and store.For such men Detroit's emptiness offers chances that are unavailable elsewhere; it makes the city into a sprawling laboratory, a living stage.
