Hence the mute doorbell, the endlessly running toilet, the sagging gutters.
At one point Bechdel has a new lover who is endlessly running off to a political protest or demonstration, or vanishing to rural Massachusetts.
You don't understand how bad she is for you, and yet you endlessly run off to her the moment that she winks at you,'" he recounted.
Though he's endlessly running in place, Wilson-style, he speaks and sings in natural tones, lingering over the song "Coney Island Baby": "She's a rose, she's a pearl, she's the spin on my world".
In the back seat, she stared out the window, trying not to listen to the front seat, keeping her thought on stray things — supper, numbers, Christmas, an art work she heard about once, called something like "Horses Endlessly Running".
There was, of course, Agatha Christie, best-known theatrically for the endlessly running The Mousetrap, and Ann Jellicoe at the Royal Court and Shelagh Delaney at Theatre Workshop had blazed important trails.
If this onslaught weren't enough, one of the Biography Channel's favorite ways to fill time is endlessly running episodes of the documentary series "Mobsters," each of which tells the story of some criminal type, often deceased, through the recollections of those who ran with him or chased after him.
He likes the film analogy because of the way that dreams invite retelling and discussion, and because the prevalence of metaphor in dreams – people falling down holes or endlessly running, or in the case of another friend, caring for an ever-diminishing baby – spurs a search for meaning.
It responds to calls from some quarters for us to take patriotic pride in this slaughter, and to stop endlessly running down the generals who sent 20,000 British soldiers to theirs deaths on the first day (I repeat, the first DAY) of the Battle of the Somme.
We could sit here and talk in circles all day, endlessly running scenario after scenario but the end result would be that an iPod cable with a small switch that allows you to choose between synching or simply charging your device will be of interest to some but not to others.
