Later, she would wash it and deposit it in a carton of a special size, stamped with the "Jersey Fresh" logo.
Over a conveyor belt, a large robot spider danced over packets of sweets, plucking each one up with human speed and precision and placing it in a carton.
I removed my jacket and laid it over a carton of juice that was resting on the piled post.
It was: A carton of milk A razor A bagel (partially consumed) Some tissues (used) An empty pack of Ibuprofen A prescription bag (empty) Some pots of Gu Chocolate Pudding Schwarzkopf Supersoft Yoghurt and Coconut Shampoo Schwarzkopf Supersoft Yoghurt and Coconut Conditioner Toilet rolls A tissue covered in some kind of red liquid (maybe blood?
If I didn't know, I'd think it might be a carton for something — not a book".
White ergo pure, natural, nutritionally essential: milk seems more an element than a product, as if it were nature in a carton.
(At the end of a day, he would often sweep the things on his desk — newspaper clippings, old letters, half a sandwich — into a carton, label it "T.C.," for time capsule, date it, and store it).
(At the end of a day, he would often sweep the things on his desk newspaper clippings, old letters, half a sandwich into a carton, label it "T.C.," for time capsule, date it, and store it).
In fact and this was when it came to me the heating had taken place twenty-three miles up and by the time it had got here, to earth, to me, it was as lukewarm as a carton of milk left out on the counter.
It's realising that buying a carton of orange juice involves a lot of information technology skills, starting from the plantations to the packaging to the recording of the transaction when you pay for it".
