For comparison, Wyoming is on average even emptier than Australia or Namibia, two infamously empty countries that are mostly covered in uninhabitable deserts.
I find myself being much more optimistic when starting a project, more willing to look past the challenges and think that it will work out well, even now that the streets are much emptier.
Nietzsche said: " Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings; always darker, emptier and simpler." Let your instincts, emotions, prejudices and superstitions run free.
We rode a few stops south to a less busy neighborhood, then jumped out, crossed the street, and hailed our regular northbound bus, which was reliably emptier than it would be at Seventy-Fifth, where we normally boarded.
And I remained without any appetite for incorruptible food--not because I was already filled with it, but because the emptier I became the more I loathed it.