He helped Henry to overthrow the Provisions of Oxford, but from June to October 1260 he again visited Germany, then discovering the impossibility of his hopes of the imperial crown.
I discovered the impossibility of taking useful action during a strong earthquake; the only option is simply to endure.
Although most audience members at first had no idea what to make of Cage's composition and, indeed, some left in a huff it gradually became clear to the discerning that the work was intended to help the audience discover the impossibility of actual silence in life.
I told the Professor that my wife left me a few months ago and that, ever since, I have developed a growing obsession with The Impossibility of Love, with understanding it, and with discovering the remaining chapters.
"A prisoner... discovers the impossibility of his escape, as well when he considers the obstinacy of the gaoler, as the walls and bars with which he is surrounded," David Hume wrote in 1748, "and, in all attempts for his freedom, chooses rather to work upon the stone and iron of the one, than upon the inflexible nature of the other".
The proved inability of empirical methods to yield knowledge of reality, which in fact they can only classify and reduce to types, involves the impossibility of an aesthetics arrived at by collecting aesthetic facts in classes and discovering their laws by induction.
I discovered that everything I disagreed with in The Impossibility of Love turned out to be my reality.
Again, however, this was scarcely new, as shown by Henry James, whose later tales are like prophesies of Antonioni; there is even one called "The Bench of Desolation," written fifty years before "L'Avventura," which brings together a man and a woman, by the sea, and discovers "the vanity, the profanity, the impossibility, of anything between them but silence".
