The reckoning, though, cannot be postponed forever.
Clearly, the maintenance and rebuilding of bridges, roads, water systems and the like can't be postponed forever.
He knew that Indian independence could not be postponed forever, but he wanted to insure that what he considered the right class of people gained power when the British departed, and sought to leave behind "the imperishable empire of our arts and our morals, our literature and our laws".
Smells and sounds are what in the end conquer the visitor, who, as Cavafy suggests in his poem, ends up postponing forever the return to his lodging, subconsciously pretending to lose his way back.
He also said that the large generation born in the early 1970's, which is currently postponing motherhood, is likely not to postpone it forever, especially as economies stabilize.
Windows expert Brian Livingston says that with more research, one could discover a way to postpone activation forever.
But they aren't going to postpone them forever.
The danger is that deferring elections until the people are "ready" to vote may mean postponing elections forever.
And Khartoum signed, perhaps believing that this was a key step in getting free of U.S. sanctions dating to its harboring of bin Laden and maybe figuring, many Sudan analysts speculate, that it could find ways to postpone the referendum forever.
He seems to have forgotten that by trading his body in for a newer model he has postponed but not forever avoided the final breakdown.
