And written it is, despite its heavy reliance on improvisation.
It is, despite its promise of freshness, business as usual.
It is, despite its seemingly meagre parts, a thing of startling beauty.
Google is not going to just allow the technology, amazing as it is despite its obvious flaws, to sit gathering dust on a shelf.
Mr Crouch insists on this white girl's right to enter fully into the jazz spirit: it is, despite its origins, not an exclusive black province.
He's written another song, The Drugs Don't Work, which is as good as everyone thinks it is, despite its resemblance to Crowded House's Better Be Home Soon.
Told in reverse, from homelessness, drug addiction and spells in prison back to a horribly abusive childhood, it is, despite its harrowing subject matter, a funny, irreverent read, and a far cry from the misery memoirs typified by writers such as Dave Pelzer.
Associate professor Fry says the fanged blenny is one of the most fascinating fish he's ever studied, particularly how brave it is despite its small size.
It is despite all a moving moment.
If change is at last under way it is despite the embargo, not because of it.
But it is, despite all the talk about it, the most neglected.
