If the group did not exist, it could be invented as a brilliant parody of the rock industry.
If such a device does not now exist, it should be invented.
If the enemies don't exist, they have to be invented: thus Mr Blair's spurious "forces of conservatism".
Assange struck me from the beginning as a character in a William Gibson novel, someone who if he did not exist would have to be invented in bringing out the contradictions of an emerging order and being a flavorful character while doing it.
A few isolated reports from the 1990s suggested that such chemical reactions might exist or least could be invented with some clever mechanistic thinking.
A portable version (cheirosiphōn) also existed, reputedly invented by Leo VI, making it the direct analogue to a modern flamethrower.
So obsessed that, years before fantasy baseball existed, he invented his own version of the game, with whole teams and leagues named for colors and makes of cars, and series and seasons played out with marbles for balls and toothpicks and matchsticks for bats.
According to an audio commentary on series 2, episode 4 of Green Wing, Tamsin Greig says that the students were given money to research the rules, and if none existed, to invent them.
Where predators don't exist, we invent them, and we always have, from Grendel to Godzilla.
The mind attuned to trend-setting and trend-spotting has no regard for the objective, independent pulse of life but, rather, will recklessly declare that trends exist, will invent catchwords and categories for those trends, and will proceed to stuff poor, unsuspecting life and muddled old culture down into profitable slots.
