over one's head

“It is little different than putting a plastic bag over one’s head.”

Besides nose-picking and spanking, other “vulgar” activities that are banned include putting underwear over one’s head and focusing the camera lens on sensitive parts of the body, such as the chest or buttocks, it said.

But little irritants can seem bigger than they are when the sword of Damocles is hanging over one’s head.

"What better way to imaginatively capture this projected reality than through a technology of the future? Seeing ships floating over one's head really puts such a future into visual but engaging terms."

He is at the end of his possibilities and, as he will tell Theo later, is at “a point of destitution such that one doesn’t even have a roof over one’s head and must tramp on and tramp on like a vagabond into infinity without finding either rest or food or shelter anywhere, moreover without the possibility of doing any work.”