Word: overloadings
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Ashbery's meanderers are lost in, or overwhelmed by, crowds--of people, of data, of events, of promises. His speakers suffer from information overload, which leads to an amiable, brooding loneliness, an inability to stay focused on anything. One poem begins, "Tell me more...Actually we're overextended" ("Of Dreams and Dreaming"); many open with floods of pronouns, producing, temporarily, an infinity of possible contexts...
...bourgeoisie and racked by working-class (especially anarchist) rebellion. Catalans are archetypally producers rather than dreamers, and they tend to pride themselves on what they call seny, common sense raised almost to the level of a theological virtue. They like you to know they have molta feina, a work overload. They do not see themselves or their capital as picturesque; that they leave to the Andalusians. Barcelona is no more like Seville or Granada than Milan is like Naples...
...drummer, Johnny Koncz, must either be untalented, restrained or woefully bored. His beat varies little both within and between songs. The guitarist, Danny Hulsizer, however, is kept superbusy making noise. Sure, his strumming sounds fine in isolated spurts, but its constancy tends to overload the listener. This lack of gaps plagues many songs; empty spaces of silence often are as valuable as the music itself...
Strewn throughout this story are seemingly gratuitous nods to bits and pieces of popular culture: show-biz celebrities, movies, rock groups. Maynard suggests that her alienated characters suffer the modern ailment of media overload. Toward the end of the novel, the mother of the hired teenage killer speaks: "One minute you're sitting there, reading some article in a magazine all about Tom Selleck or someone, the next thing you know they're putting handcuffs on your son. . .It doesn't feel like your real life, you know? It feels like you're on a show too. Only there...
...dealing with work overload that is forcing people to work into their breaks," said Edward B. Childs, chief co-steward of HDS. "It's not just more work, but cut-backs in labor...