What that scheme or cosmology might be, at least in the case of Lawrence, is becoming more comprehensible only now; and, perhaps 50 years from today, we'll have a fuller, less predictable sense of what Naipaul has been telling his contemporaries.
More readily comprehensible but existing now only in documentary photographs was Ms. Denes's creation of a two-acre wheat field on landfill near the World Trade Center in 1982.
It's now comprehensible why many people believe Senator's McCain's presidency will at best be an extension or third term of Bush presidency.
The initiatives became longer the longest rambled on for 15,633 words and, with double negatives and impenetrable legalese, less comprehensible.Ironically enough, Southern Pacific, now itself just another interest group, bankrolled an initiative in 1990 to issue billions in bonds to support rail transport.
What's more intriguing to catch up with is Wong Kar-Wei's 1994 "Ashes of Time," the barely comprehensible action film that now seems as if it took place a lifetime ago for the director, who has moved on to far more mature -- and opaque, if that's possible -- filmmaking.
He now speaks a comprehensible French during television interviews, mending many a Gallic heart.
With rear vision, the black leather storm trooper coats sent out by Raf Simons for Jil Sander earlier in the season now seem more comprehensible.
The metre, which used to be calibrated to the charming and comprehensible platinum-iridium metre bar is now defined as the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second.
But for a reporter who was in Baghdad exactly 12 years ago, on the eve of the gulf war, the contrasts are unavoidable, beginning with the Iraqi leader's stubborn but at least comprehensible pronouncements then, and his perplexing performances now.
In fact, it has more in common with Godard's jump-cuts, which once seemed so radical and disorienting but which have been absorbed and are now part of the common, comprehensible rubric of the form.
Verlyn Klinkenborg ("Distracting Ourselves in the Glow of the Tube," Editorial Observer, Nov. 29) asks if the pervasive all-American need for television escapism is somehow more healthy now, or at least more comprehensible than the same mindless endeavor was before the horrors of Sept. 11.
