The essence of his fiction is its teeming, anarchic, comic, obscene detail, a sort of bourgeois phantasmagoria – a version of the real so sticky and amorphous that, naturally, it can also undergo changes of scale, and other impossible effects.
All artists desire such impossible effects; they know they cannot be achieved, but try to make art that will stop time itself, that will give new order and beauty to a troubled world.
But in trying to determine what Congress meant when it included "established by the State" in the provision in question, he confined his analysis to looking at how the phrase is used elsewhere in the law, and whether King's interpretation would lead to absurd or impossible effects on other passages.
Only those charged with putting the impossible into effect risked losing their jobs.
To the contrary, he says that the political system is so broken, and so in hock to big money, that it is virtually impossible to effect nearly any substantive progressive change.
On the basis of the principles of Greek geometry, it cannot be demonstrated, however, that it is impossible to effect by planar means certain solid constructions (like the cube duplication and angle trisection).
The problem is a classic one, as in Lessing's "Laocoön," from 1766, regarding the adaptation of a poem by a visual artist: The sculptor had to exercise his skill in embodying the highest degree of beauty, exhibited under circumstances of bodily pain; a combination which it would have been utterly impossible to effect, had the latter been depicted in all its hideous violence.
Perfect centring being impossible, tidal effects need to be carefully investigated as they impose severe constraints on the basic features of the experiment design.
Sacking permanent employees, still the majority of the labour force, is in effect impossible today.
"As 21st century academics, the expectations on us are, in effect, impossible," says Rosie Miles, senior lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton.
