ttyl?" Clinton told me she had not yet made specific plans for her future, but then revealed some, or "pieces of things," as she put it.
But sometimes, seeing them marched past her window with their "bits and pieces of things", she found the sight too awful and had to turn away.
There aren't any Nike factories, or Intel plants, or signs that say DuPont; important brands base themselves in bigger cities. Lishui companies make pieces of things: zippers, copper wiring, electric-outlet covers.
All aspects of creativity are basically reconstituted bits and pieces of things we've seen, heard and experienced, finely or not-so-finely chopped and served in a form that hopefully blends the ingredients into something "new".
"I have read bits and pieces of things you write, Mr. Nietzsche," she says in a Marilyn Monroe-like voice, "so I imagined you big and strong, with eyes on fire.
After he sorted through the junk he found inside, he began to build, reconfiguring the pieces of things like a home entertainment center, old deck chairs, fish tanks, dollhouses and dollhouse furniture, model train set pieces, jewelry boxes, brooms and silverware.
As the years went by I accumulated bits and pieces of things that interested me.
I was really interested in bringing together pieces of things that could gesture towards the messier parts of history.
It would have been mostly stuff that scientific people might find by following the paper trail, and looking for small pieces of things hidden somewhere.
