But an admission makes it virtually impossible to cast Jones as Conte would: a sympathetic victim.
A bronze horse that he designed for Ludovico was so enormous that it proved impossible to cast; Ludovico finally dispatched the raw bronze to a neighboring state to be turned into cannons, in preparation for a threatened attack by the French.
Critic Greil Marcus argues that given the truly distinctive breadth and complexity of Morrison's work, it is almost impossible to cast his work among that of others: "Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of rock & roll, a singer who cannot be pinned down, dismissed, or fitted into anyone's expectations".
In an increasingly complex world, they tell simple stories that allow us to mistake their seemingly effortless bluster for assurance — for a confidence that is often built no sturdier than a house of cards but that, in the moment, is impossible to cast aside.
By calling a snap general election over a single issue of economic reform, the privatisation of Japan Post, which had been opposed by rebels in the LDP but also, crucially, by the main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, he managed the seemingly impossible: to cast the LDP, the ultimate guardian of the status quo, as the party of change.
It is telling that the two big estrogen-fueled action pictures from Hollywood this year, "Tomb Raider" and "Charlie's Angels," are both gimmick movies in which it would have been impossible to cast men.
And he is poised to portray the impossible-to-cast title role in "Siegfried".
If individual survival of death is impossible, then Dworkin is right to cast aside (as he does) the comedian Woody Allen's aspiration to live on forever, not in his work, but in his apartment.
