At the other end of the table, nothing now can save Accrington, but there are so many clubs in distress that it is impossible to visualise at the moment which unfortunates will go down with them.
Not that he is likely to turn down the lure of Roma, should a deal be made, though in another aspect of the deal that would have been almost impossible to visualise just a few years ago, he may have to adjust to smaller crowds.
The concluding story, "Vanishing", shows that Beagle still has the power to surprise, a darkly moving piece set on the Berlin wall where the rest of Germany has disappeared, a scenario impossible to visualise until Beagle weaves it into existence with his magical prose.
Of course "bad sex" writing is funny because the anatomical vocabulary of conventional sex writing is hackneyed, impossible to visualise because full of ludicrously mixed metaphors, stale, and given to bragging.
"It's impossible to visualise it on a day like today when it's beautiful and sunny but sometimes it gets big out there and sometimes it gets to the next level, beyond the realms... .. says the surfer Andrew Cotton, tapering off as he considers how best to describe the 60ft wave that flattened him exactly a year ago.
Since high-dimensional adaptive landscapes are very difficult to navigate and virtually impossible to visualise, researchers have been developing abstractions that provide a more accessible picture.
A simple app was quickly developed using this data, to visualise the "flow" of World Bank contracts.
