He was brilliant, had far more knowledge of the party than me, with an acute and, even then, well-honed tactical brain; but it operated essentially within familiar and conventional parameters.
The essays on particular composers and pieces are generally the densest and will only be meaningful to people who know the repertoire well – and, even then, may well need to be read in conjunction with a study score and/or YouTube or Spotify.
(And even then... well, never mind).
But will they cut him the slack he'll need to even attempt a solution, which even then might well not work?
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Counting up all the coups d'état here, successful and unsuccessful, requires at least a full hand of fingers, and even then the well informed do not promise accuracy.
And even then - well, when was the last time you steamed the carpet in your guestroom, or turned the mattress over?
However, trying to start a technology, non-software, product business is generally frowned upon greatly, unless the founder has access to hundreds of millions of dollars to do so, and even then... well, if it's a complicated, complex device involving hundreds or even thousands of tiny components... say, a smartphone... one could be warned off the idea entirely.
Readers will also be disabused of the notion that blind people have a heightened sense of smell (nope, not even Helen Keller, apparently); that dogs can easily sniff out bladder cancer (not without tremendous training, and even then, not so well); and that a palate cleanser is needed for proper wine tasting, or that the size and shape of a wineglass significantly affects aroma.
Even then, painters were well aware of the risks they ran.
