The Wiki's plot summary for "A Void", a book that (usually) omits a symbol vital to our vocabulary, also avoids that symbol
This bamboo stalk got snapped almost completely in half during a storm two years ago, and yet it still lives.
This tree got carried down river during the winter storms. It's started its new life in the middle of the river
We watched the eclipse in a park with a pioneer village. The holes in the schoolhouse roof showed the eclipse on the floor.