Twos article originally appeared on VICE AU.
Ms. Anderson moved in May from Wisconsin to San Mateo, south of San Francisco, looking for work and a taste of the Bay Area's counterculture, she said, but found herself surrounded by computer geeks who talked endlessly about gaming.
Lewis, Lingeman says, "had a phobia about being alone," but he contrived to be alone when surrounded by people, deafened by his own "endlessly narratory" voice.
Instead, I wallowed in the physical descriptions of the weather, which are plentiful and brilliant and, to a child brought up surrounded by radiators and running hot water, endlessly fascinating.
Such places stretch endlessly with brand names and multiscreen cinemas, their floors linked by escalators surrounded by two-story fountains, the variety of edibles in their food courts matched only by the seductive mix of big-box stores and boutiques.
Beebe refuses to leave, but the house has been surrounded by five dogs; as they are killed they are seemingly endlessly replaced by others.
Surrounded by a kindly maid and an officious butler, the eminent soprano Régine Saint Laurent endlessly dithers about whether to sing the title role in an opera called "Aliénor d'Aquitaine," in which she made her last performance six years before.
Perhaps the Greek landscape itself, with its small alluvial plains often surrounded by defensible mountain systems, somehow prompted the formation of small and acrimonious poleis, endlessly going to war over boundaries.
Surrounded by conflict zones.
