A wealthy, eccentric man, with a passion for recycling, has died, leaving a warehouse overflowing with material at the city's urban ecology centre.
I was overflowing with material I wanted to write about, and it sorted itself fairly intuitively into categories of "novel" and "not-novel".
Times are especially troubling now, so it seems that contemplating the future -- or, rather, a future without me in it -- might not be such a bad idea, even though I am young, single, childless and not exactly overflowing with material possessions.
From the teacup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip, the plastic in our appliances to the elastic in our underpants, our lives are overflowing with materials.
This kind of life is barren of stability, security, identity and honour, even when it overflows with material goods.
It can be built with several small containers, or you can find a low and long vessel to play with, and have the materials overflowing on all sides".
Books have been written on them; archival materials are overflowing.
But many readers, however amused, have also been taken aback by tales like Peronella's, and the Decameron overflows with such material.
A homey space packed to overflowing with books and other material on radical politics, the store is in many eyes as much a part of the neighborhood's fabric as the legacy of Malcolm himself.
But before we reach these, we encounter half a dozen collage and tempera visions of the organized chaos and color of the artist's studio and worktable — overflowing with the mass of materials he employs to build up his multilayered and richly textured images.
