The nymph's extendable mouth parts, housed behind serrated jaws, are the stuff of a science-fiction nightmare, part of the inspiration for HR Giger's creature from the film Alien, a fragment from the palaeozoic era projected on to a dystopian future.
The work had become, he told me, so complex in its structures and so infinitely extendable in its concerns that he did not envisage completing it, only bringing it to a point of abandonment that might also be a point of publication.
Extendable chrome bath rack, £99,.
Within a month, an old warehouse had been converted into a suitably Siliconesque office, covered in pink and yellow cubicles--and all on an extendable one-year lease.
We are happy to clarify that although Ecuador's Central Bank signed an agreement in December 2008 under which Iran's Central Bank has set up a credit line of $40m, extendable by $80m, at the Export Development Bank of Iran for the use of Ecuadorean importers, none of this money has been deposited in Ecuador.
He makes a single six-year term, extendable only for four years in cases of exceptional performance, a central part of his platform.Mr Diouf has supporters as well as detractors.
The 134 members of the new assembly, to be chosen in a nationwide vote, are under orders to transform the state's "institutional framework" and write a new constitution within 180 days (extendable by a further 60 days).
Foreign investors will also get a five-year tax holiday and 50-year land leases, extendable by another 20 years, giving them a degree of long-term security.Certainty and clarity to would-be punters is, nevertheless, still in short supply.
The maths is complicated, but the result is easy enough to grasp: an indefinitely extendable row of notes that unfolds according to the simplest of rules in nevertheless unpredictable shapes.
On May 8th easyJet, a British low-cost airline, said it had taken an option to buy Deutsche BA, the loss-making German subsidiary of British Airways, before the end of March next year, extendable to early July, for up to euro46m ($42m).
OGX now has two months, extendable for a further three, to agree a recovery plan with investors.
