He tries to imagine his remains – or, as Beckett puts it, "to conceive of his exuviae" – "as preserved in an urn or other receptacle in some kind person's sanctum or as drifting about like a cloud of randy pollen, but somehow he could not quite bring it off, this simple little flight".
In a mostly left-leaning city, he acted as a colourful receptacle for assorted anti-Labour votes that, in past general elections, have accrued to Conservative and Lib Dem candidates.
"Green technology" is a favourite receptacle for such subsidies.In 2008 France created a sovereign-wealth fund as part of its response to the financial crisis; it promises to promote biotechnology ventures, though it has also sunk capital into conventional manufacturers that happened to need money.
That provides a neat receptacle for any blame.Although at least one senior intelligence officer complained about overstatement (and then about the government's assertion that there was no discontent) the top spooks seem to have swallowed any doubts.
Displaying an impressive familiarity with J.K. Rowling's oeuvre, he added that Yasukuni was a "horcrux", a receptacle where the evil one secreted part of his soul.
But slicing up huge oil tankers or freighters on beaches releases oil, heavy metals, dioxins, asbestos and other toxic chemicals into the sea.Last voyageThe sea is the ultimate receptacle for much of the world's waste.
Yet the Lib Dems, for so long scorned as an irrelevant receptacle of wasted votes, can be forgiven a moment of hubris.
By going offshore they can pool their resources in a jurisdiction that is willing to act as a mere receptacle and refrain from taking a cut other than registration fees.
These tend to go the other way moving money out of diocesan accounts and into parish accounts, trusts of various sorts and any other receptacle at hand.
BofA's website has been an enormous hit, with 20m customers paying bills online.A huge bank is a huge receptacle for cash.
The leadership shenanigans of the Lib Dems were never going to dent their appeal to those who were looking for a receptacle of protest after nearly nine years of Labour rule.
