Harris felt jolted, as if King were speaking directly to him, to his deepest, most impossible desire.
The Sense of an Ending honours that impossible desire in a way that is novel, fertile and memorable.
Ms. Mann's scenes from a marriage and a mortuary leap to the heart of this impossible desire.
In the early two-thousands, I saw some of these, among them "Love, Janis," an affecting cabaret-size show about Janis Joplin, based on her letters; "Lost Highway," about Hank Williams, which both satisfied and frustrated my impossible desire to see him in concert; and a small show about Edith Piaf, with similar results.
And as Nishida confided many years later to Nishitani, it was from early on his "impossible desire" to somehow bring Zen and philosophy together (NKZ XIX, 224 25; see Davis 2004b, 256ff).
Indeed, the early Buddhist analysis of the human condition amounts to the claim that all desire is really a proxy-version of this impossible desire for control, for single-agent causality, for pure autonomy, for selfhood; thus all desire is doomed.
Holden has also been routinely reviled as a corruptor of youth, a target of self-righteous morality cops and misguided schoolboards bent on banning a book that depicts Holden's impossible desire to save the children and erase F-bombs from the walls of public places.
This was a sad love, an impossible desire of spirit for matter.
Instead I've tried to investigate my tendency to understand myself as an image, wanting to be a pure image, and the impossible desire to have no thoughts or feelings, to be just an object in some sense.
