"Lost in Showbiz," they ask, "for the love of God, what news of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's plans to conceive a second child?" At this, Lost in Showbiz smiles benignly.
The vast majority of women suffering from fistula are married off and conceive at a young age, increasing the risk of obstructed labour as their bodies are not fully developed.
I used to think that imaginative failure explained the relative lack of public concern about state and corporate surveillance: people simply cannot conceive where this stuff might be taking us, which is why we needed novelists such as Orwell and Aldous Huxley – and now Dave Eggers – to help us visualise potential dystopias.
He tries to imagine his remains – or, as Beckett puts it, "to conceive of his exuviae" – "as preserved in an urn or other receptacle in some kind person's sanctum or as drifting about like a cloud of randy pollen, but somehow he could not quite bring it off, this simple little flight".
Any object you can conceive of having a USB attachment poking out of it is for sale, along with several hundred thousand that you can't.
Especially for childless pairs, longing to conceive, "addressing that is not on the list of priorities", Widra says.
– It is difficult to conceive why they should select a situation apparently so ineligible, and so incompatible with their usual shy and cautious habits, as the centre of a large town; but we hope they will not be molested, and that they will have no cause to repent the confidence they have thus reposed in mankind.
According to the usual phalanx of unnamed insiders, eager to breach the impenetrable wall of secrecy and reserve surrounding a woman who has agreed to have her uterus cleaned out on national television, the Kardashian-Wests have employed "a brigade of baby experts" to help them conceive.
Talk to your doctor about your dilemma, because he or she has a better knowledge of your case than I could possibly do in this forum, and as such will be better able to assess how much at risk you may be if you were to conceive.
Was I meant to tell my new partner that I might struggle to conceive?
A more overrated pedlar of leaden phrases it is hard to conceive.
