Clements Olin, the protagonist of Peter Matthiessen's last novel, In Paradise, published earlier this year, "tends to agree with the many who have stated that fresh insight into the horror of the camps is inconceivable, and efforts at interpretation by anyone lacking direct personal experience an impertinence, out of the question".
Individual libraries sometimes received grants to scan specific collections — in 2001, the New York Public Library used federal money to digitize a substantial portion of the collection at its Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture — but a comprehensive effort seemed inconceivable.
It is inconceivable that there should be any effort to punish those responsible for the Mustafa assassination.
"It's almost inconceivable that the incredible international human effort that went into eradicating smallpox could be overturned by malicious human acts," he says.
In 1986, Reagan signed a massive immigration-reform bill into law under which 2.7 million undocumented immigrants became citizens — a Republican-led effort of the sort that is inconceivable today.
It is inconceivable that so many U.S. bishops would have instituted such ambitious efforts to address clergy sexual abuse in the absence of the intense media coverage and public attention generated by civil lawsuits--not to mention the liability exposure.
Basically: Unless Apple is omitting something or there's some backdoor tucked into their many-layers-deep encryption (which, while unlikely, isn't inconceivable) they really can't read your iMessages without a fairly insane amount of effort.
It is not inconceivable that agents will become publishers, any more than it is inconceivable that Amazon will ramp up its publishing efforts.
Inconceivable! Inconceivable!
