All that is required from the performer is everything, including, in particular, enormous resources of range (in texture, color, touch, force), of concentration and of certainty.
What in fact has happened is that a very small number of Western scientists and technologists, using all the enormous resources of a modern urban-industrial society, has achieved certain results, which we choose to call the "conquest of space".
As a former minister, you don't just lose your job and the enormous resources of the civil service, you also have to watch programmes that you were involved in being gradually dismantled.
After 9/11, the Americans threw enormous resources of manpower, money and computer time into the "global war on terrorism," which was also about tracking the potential terrorist at home, in a country with a tiny and mostly well-integrated Muslim population.
"All that is required from the performer is everything," Paul Griffiths wrote in The New York Times last month, when a Norwegian pianist, Hakon Austbo, took up the challenge, "including, in particular, enormous resources of range (in texture, color, touch, force), of concentration and of certainty".
But the notion of a single artist commanding the enormous resources of a studio in pursuit of a personal vision (however potentially commercial the project may also have seemed) is an offense to sensibilities that are far more invested in the system at large than in the potentially mold-breaking exceptions.
Current health policy devotes enormous resources to end-of-life care rather than, say, wellness throughout life.
The New York Times has devoted enormous resources to coverage of school shootings, rampage killings, and this country's continuing tragedy of gun violence.
The FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon's Defence Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency already command vast budgets and deploy enormous resources to keep track of potential threats.
Love reminded the audience that large philanthropic granting foundations, with the Gates Foundation paramount among these groups, have mobilized enormous resources to address needs of the very poor; consequently, their influence both on global health priorities and access norms is substantial.
