But to come here purely to live off our tax money is what is upsetting people, I think".
David Jones, 69, Sheffield I find myself a little reluctant to be against Trident, purely because living close to it I understand the role of the military in the economy.
What he really wants, though, is to rub away all traces of personality — to "anonymize" himself and live purely in the present tense.
It's a playful stab at those who live purely for the moment — might the fear of missing out merely reveal our death drive?
"My theatres have no public funds and live purely off ticket sales," said José Cimarro, a Madrid producer who has programmed Madame Bovary, The War of the Roses and An Inspector Calls at his two theatres, La Latina and Bellas Artes.
There's authenticity in this counterpoint: it is men, chiefly, who are murderers; it is women, across most of the world, who — sometimes purely by default — live out their days keeping the home fires burning and longing passively for more.
If Morrissey needs a new audience for his shtick, he'll certainly find it on Twitter, a realm brimming with eggs who live purely to encourage wrongheaded public idiots to keep telling it like it is.
A Ph.D. candidate at Berkeley, he is a white man who pretends to be an Indian, a man whose grim determination to live purely is often undercut by circumstances beyond his control.
"Everybody's singing the same song / It goes Tonite (tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight) / I never realized that these artists thought so much about dying". It's a playful stab at those who live purely for the moment might the fear of missing out merely reveal our death drive?
With all those tales of pirates, crocodiles and Indian squaws behind us – whisked away as quickly as toys tidied into a trunk – we are left with the sorry realisation that time passes, childhood fades and, however much we may yearn as adults to live purely in the moment once again, the possibility is beyond us.
