It was enough that my body was given over to this strange, alien purpose of reproduction.
The situation is scarier than anyone wants to say, simply because if, by some hideous mischance, or some strange perversity of purpose — and perversities of purpose are not unknown in France — Le Pen were to be elected President in the second round of voting, next week, France would undergo a revolution of one kind or another, and the Fifth Republic would come to an end.
The strange sense of purpose that brought him up the driveway and across the lawn has just as mysteriously deserted him.
He winkles out the most mesmerising and arcane items from cupboards and shadowy corridors: a Congolese power figure, an Egyptian soul house, grave dollies, magic nails, their appearance as strange as their purpose.
And to anyone with the gadget gene -- and everyone on an America's Cup boat has the gadget gene -- leaving Auckland will mean an end to the strange sense of purpose derived from countless hours of tweaking, reconfiguring and redesigning their yachts in search of speed.
It fills you with a strange sense of purpose that seems to invigorate the project and deepen the vision, even when you feel like all you've got is fireflies to follow, just the hint of heat and light out ahead, it teases you on, leads you somewhere you can barely see in the distance, toward an ancient city shrouded in fog, just waiting for you to come discover it.
Goshka Macuga's work has also employed found materials to strange and intriguing purposes: her 2005 work A Time to Live, A Time to Die reworked pictures by Picasso and Max Ernst in hand-tooled leather.
She has the hundred-and-eighty-degree extension that ballerinas, worldwide, now cultivate, but she uses it for dance purposes — to carve the air, broaden the arc — rather than for the merely visual purpose, so strange and fundamentally vulgar, of raising the foot to the ear.
To find out what purpose these strange calls served, the scientists made video and audio recordings of big brown bats as they hunted tethered mealworms.
The proliferation of cross-purposes and strange bedfellows makes for pernicious and complicated arbitrating.
