They emptied their bowels into their trousers, and decorated their faces with the excrement – blacked them up like minstrels, brown and crispy-coated like racist confectionery.
The legs of the bluejeans hung empty from the knee, like the trousers of a double amputee.
They even began to remove one of the cheekiest references to Jiang: an empty set of clothes hanging up, with the trousers hitched to Simon Cowell-level.
In the stream of sunlight across the blackboard the chalkdust floats, millions of white grains, breathed in and out all day, found at night in the turnups of trousers, all the aridity of this empty trade.
Each empty evening a figure arrivesin a shooting jacket and combat trousers,combing the shore with a metal detector,grubbing for coins or keys, sweeping for mines.The shovel hooked to the back of his beltdrags behind him like a devil's tail,plowing a furrow, marking a lone trail.
Everything fit in a small blue plastic bag: an extra pair of trousers, a notebook with the Unicef logo across its cover, a ballpoint pen and an empty wallet emblazoned with a fake Nike swoosh.
Later, he endured 'BI (basic item) loss', when his thin mattress, trousers, shirts, towel, blankets, and flipflops were also taken away, leaving him naked except for boxer shorts in an empty metal box.
He took an empty plastic cup from the passenger seat and steered with a knee while using his hands to hold the cup and open his trousers.
With no trousers underneath.
