His colleague Gary Conley said he never envisaged "something of such beauty" on top of the former spoil heap after seeing years of dirt, smoke, steam and coal on the same spot.
However, Amis envisaged something different for the character: he did not like M and, as one reviewer pointed out that in The James Bond Dossier, he had "spent a chapter running him down".
"You have to envisage something and then make it happen.
"Sometimes you're lucky with those things, you envisage something and it comes off but it's not always like that".
Can we envisage something more than Haiyan?" Reibl says that in the past the Philippines were considered the 7-11 of natural disasters – small but open all hours.
Few enthusiasts would envisage something like the 1947 Mohs, a one-off, 13-foot scooter built by a then 14-year-old in Madison, Wisc., that is on loan to the museum from the original builder and owner.
After You'll See Me, when we asked people to envisage something they might do in the future, one man imagined himself living by a river or canal, and because of the piece he went out and did just that".
"We never think of our projects as just games - the games are the starting point; they're the heartbeat of the franchises that we create, so we have to envisage something that can be built into an amazing game, but also the characters and the story have to be strong enough to expand offline into books, cartoons, toys and everything else.
Samsung envisages something like this being used in electronic book readers, electronic passports, etc. Paper be damned, I guess.
"One will want to look very carefully to see if this is a power that requires the intervention of the court at any stage, or whether it's simply envisaged as something the home secretary imposes.
Its line-up is the instrumental quintet of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire plus percussion, but he envisages writing something for them to play live against a pre-recorded tape of themselves, so that the instrumentation is doubled: "You know that wonderful moment in Stravinsky's Agon with the two flutes and castanets - I'd love to do something like that!
