Palmer, who has died aged 87, was one of the most charismatic golfers ever to play the game, a man's man who was adored by women and a player for whom no play was ever impossible.
They knew there was no way out of Marysville, that their vehicle was about to go up, that the air wasn't breathable, and, with every second that passed, that survival was ever more impossible.
In the defenseless calm of the first round, as various players have remarked, all but one hole was easy; the seventeenth was, as ever, "impossible".
It is hard to understand why they were ever there, and impossible to justify their continued existence.
There are no identical units in art, because no two works are ever absolutely similar, making exact calculation impossible.
Bills Chick at ChicksInTheHuddle.cOr.
As with any new technology, it is impossible ever to prove conclusively that GM foods are safe.
Narrative incidents are impossible (ever tried to shake an oak tree?).
"It's impossible ever to start an additional church in some of these suburban communities," he said.
Even if he kept this resolution to the letter (which I doubt), he eventually discovered for himself the deconstructionist catch-22: "as soon as I've written a sentence I've already changed my life, or at least added to it, so that it's impossible ever to catch myself up into a state of completeness".
