Both United States pairs started the day off with golden possibilities, but their destinies were not entirely in their own hands.
We are, perhaps, at the beginning of a golden age of possibility, where writers can write at whatever length they choose, can bundle books together into one enormous whole, or ask readers to contemplate an exquisite singularity, charging them whatever they think they can get away with.
The third side of the "golden triangle" connects possibility with apriority.
"Life Itself" is, for the most part, a work of heir-conditioning that sets up a domino-string of maudlin, sentimental ancestor-worship based on gratitude for the wealth that those ancestors piled up in a past golden age of possibilities, and which now exists only for newcomers to live long enough to tell the tale.
BG has poached Helge Lund, the boss of Norway's state oil group, to be its next chief executive, offering a £12m "golden hello" and the possibility of annual earnings of £13.5m if he hits all his targets.
The savage irony is that even as these aspirants sign up for the promise of such a golden career, so the possibility of their actually pursuing it steadily diminishes; a still more savage irony is that the very form their instruction takes militates against the culture of the texts they desire to produce.
Also with four (I believe) players up for awards, three with the chance of winning the golden boot and the possibility of Klose setting a new record, there's more to play for than just third place... Fair points, but I still think it's just a needless anti-climax.
During the high season, "for almost eight months, we are living in a sort of golden jail without the possibility to take some time just for us," he said.
His optimism was tempered by awareness that there was still stubborn opposition by reactionary monks and theologians, and a careful reading of the letter shows that he saw the golden age as a possibility in the near future, not something already achieved.
