Word: detritus
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...that the record of a life, after all, comes down to its detritus--the stubs of train tickets, Circle Line passes, a faded flower pressed in an old book. The artifacts themselves are not so important, of course; rather it is the spinning web of connections made and missed, the spiritual passings and associations that the artifacts bring to mind. Not stirring stuff perhaps, but resolutely, even defiantly individual. And as Elizabeth Hardwick writes in this beautiful and opaque short book, which is certainly not autobiography but not quite fiction...
...come, as you might expect, from "deviant"--Devo draws its identity from a theory called "De-evolution," the idea that homo sapiens is on its way back down that ol' Darwinian scale. As a result, the band's songs tend to be about mental deviants, physiological functions, and the detritus of modern American life...
...happens after Tx. rutilus does in large numbers of the prey mosquitoes? Does it turn, in its adult stage, to bigger meals?like man? Fortunately, the bug's proboscis cannot penetrate the skin of animal or human, and the adult depends for food only on flower nectar and plant detritus. Thus for mosquito control, as Focks puts it, "the Toxorhynchites is a neat package...
Unlike picking the nose or chewing gum or other disgusting quirks that one can merely ignore, smokers literally force others present to participate, whether they like it or not. The visible detritus of smokers, the world's rudest people, is also noxious, since they consider the world their ashtray...
...fairness to the manufacturers, repairers point out that many consumers do not read instructions or take care of their appliances. Mrs. Ellen Rittle, who has run a repair center in Burbank, Calif., for 25 years, says that toasters often contain such detritus as pennies, spoons, sunflower seeds and cockroaches...