By the close of the Mooring Mates' Monday meeting, it was clear to an outsider that to seek an actual definition of the Mooring Mates is to take a mundane approach to the metaphysical, to get bogged down in the tangible attempt, metaphorically, to anchor a boat to a buoy.
This was no "angry brigade" of Oxford-educated "anarchists" but, rightly or wrongly, a real attempt to orchestrate and instruct a tangible manifesto.
He showed me the document, on Al Qaeda letterhead: stamped by the "Sécurité Islamique," with a logo of a crossed Kalashnikov and sword, it was a tangible sign of the Islamists' attempt to acquire the trappings of official power.
By Song times, however, the systematic interiorization and sublimation of alchemy had become so widespread that all earlier texts of operative, external alchemy (waidan) were henceforth supposed to have really been written about neidan, and the attempt to compound a tangible chemical elixir was thought to have been no more than a hoax.
That is a big claim for what should be a lot of fun but with attempts to find a tangible sporting legacy from London 2012, expectations are high.
Architecture and design firm Orproject is attempting to achieve such a feat with its installation Dynamorph, a tangible representation of "Urja," the force and energy which Nepalese shamans attempt to control and master through their practices. .
The ability to reduce these outcomes provides more compelling evidence of a tangible benefit for clinicians than simply increasing first-attempt success.
This largely fruitless attempt at making summer a reality, a tangible, real thing, only serves to remind us how terrible most summers are.
Merkel, who has attempted to rally Germans with the slogan "We can do it", has pledged a "tangible reduction" in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany in the coming months.
The paper gave a tangible aura of quality, gravitas, even value to the chocolate - a characteristic that their early attempts at chocolate making did not possess.
It makes a tangible difference.
