In the center, opposite the door, stood the altar, with a thick curtain of some worked stuff hung behind it.

Damned stuff just hangs there; must take a year for it to settle back again.

The really good stuff finds its way to Sotheby's and Christie's; the not- so-good stuff hangs around, and you find yourself revisiting it, in different settings, with different emotions, for years.

But for pollutants that form in the air as a result of chemical reaction, such as ozone, summer brings "high-pressure, stagnant conditions in which stuff hangs around all day."

"The process is what's important, not the stuff hanging on the walls," she said.

I had my arms full and my pockets full and stuff hung around my neck.

For a moment or two, the shadowy stuff hung firmly in place, then it grew thinner.

The wretched stuff hung around for days, but there didn't seem any way of ladling it into Hex and anyway no one could stand the noise.

"The shorter-term stuff is hanging in there," one trader said.

'Bennie, is that your stuff hanging there?'