But the story of his burst of symphonic outpouring began just over six years ago, when he left Britain for what he thought would be a life of walking, travel and friends.
At the outset Chuck Jones, the Looney Tunes animator and director, who died in 2002, introduces the outpouring that began in the bungalow called Termite Terrace in 1930.
And then the outpouring really began: over the following weeks, we received hundreds of presents and cards and e-mail messages from just about every corner of our lives.
This year we have seen the outpouring that began last year multiply.
And after the last meaningful play of a come-from-behind 24-17 victory, a run to the left by Washington's Ladell Betts that was snuffed out immediately, there was a moment's hesitation before the joyous outpouring of relief began.
The outpouring of affection was only beginning Sunday.
Five weeks after the waves killed some 300,000 people, and left millions more without food, homes or livelihoods, the global outpouring of money and sympathy is only just beginning to ebb.
Many Indian women, perhaps inspired by the outpouring of anger over the 2012 rape, are beginning to speak out about the problem on their terms, overcoming generations of stigma surrounding violations of women's sexual rights.
There was such an outpouring from bystanders that Mr. Gore observed, "I'm beginning to think we planted these people".
Beginning a writing career in the 1950s with an outpouring of story collections, Idrīs who wrote plays and novels, as well as publishing many more story collections in the last half of the 20th century managed to recount in his vignettes the realities of the life of the poor, primarily in the Egyptian countryside but also in the ancient quarters of Cairo.
The news of Michael Jackson's death arrived late on Thursday afternoon, and the great outpouring of celebrity eulogies began immediately.
