The Wisconsin author Michael Perry, Vernon's friend and a sometime collaborator, says "For Emma" captures the particular mood of the region: "What it is to be alone in the Wisconsin swamp in late November, the sun is going away, and nature rather than being a comfort is instead an implacable force that fills your soul with emptiness".
He was discussing the way that disease flourished in post-industrial British townships, but the sentiment holds true for the soul-crushing emptiness of homogenized food in any time and place.
In his 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell wrote that "we may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun". He was discussing the way that disease flourished in post-industrial British townships, but the sentiment holds true for the soul-crushing emptiness of homogenized food in any time and place.
A vertical bridge and emptiness, emptiness, emptiness.
All he saw was emptiness.
In contrast, James' sick soul sees the emptiness of the glass first and can't stop wondering why it's that way.
Undoubtedly, we left a piece of our soul in the vast emptiness of the Iranian desert and with the people whom we came to know during our journey in this astonishing country.
Another man explains, "You see, the thing is, I've looked into my soul and it's just emptiness".
"I can't explain the pain, because I'm still trying to figure it out today, but I have an emptiness where my soul should be," another accuser testified.
A fleeting expression of confusion passing over Marco Rubio's face during a debate is digitally zoomed and repeated until it becomes a window into the emptiness of his soul.
Among those were suggestions directed at himself like "Go to an Al-Anon meeting;" one directed at viewers urging them to "avoid degrading yourself by having meaningless sex with strangers in a futile attempt to fill the emptiness of your soul;" and another asking the audience to pray for people working on the series: "Feel free to pick whomever you think is most in need".
