barrenness

After eons of barrenness I am finally giving birth.

Still, looking at all the barrenness, I really look forward to the next time it floods way over into the parking lots like it did a couple of years ago.

This thing sounds more Yeats than Orwell: For all things turn to barrenness In the dim glass the demons hold, The glass of outer weariness, Made when God slept in times of old.

This book charts both a disturbing contemporary condition and the potential barrenness for future democratic projects contained in this troubled present.

Not that there's a lack of isolation going around...Historically, Aboriginal people didn't really expand their population much, not that the barrenness of most of the landmass helped, while white/ other people have only been on the island for ~240 years.

Some memorable quotes:> Don't read, study.> Inspiration, the high-strung condition in which emotion, eloquence, music, or merely strong coffee can place us... reveals to us whole regions in our souls which have nothing in common with the sandy barrenness of our daily existence.> Social intercourse ... is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity.> Some people who think freely and charmingly in speaking seem to put their minds in a straitjacket at the moment they begin to write.