After a lot of soul-searching, I realised the answer is yes.
As he watched a coffee percolator, he realised the answer was to use the ink itself to shoot dots on to paper".The race to develop the inkjet printer had a profound cultural impact on both companies".To do so, he tried using a pair of electrodes with the ink between them acting as a resistor.
"As we were scratching our heads thinking about what to do, we realised the answer was in our hands.
He says: "When someone comes to me with a project I always ask, 'Is it a fresh idea and will it work for audiences?' And soon I realised the answer to both those questions was yes.
Of course, Drew realised the answer was yes.
Across the Channel, sensible continentals realise that the answer to this condundrum is furtive infidelity.
Such things are still important, but I have come to realise that the answer actually lies in something far more basic, something that should be central to the writing of any piece of fiction: the creation of character.
When what really happened in the course of Cliff's investigations is quietly revealed in the novel's last few pages, we realise that the answer has always been implicit, even if skilfully obscured.
When the officer asked if I'd felt threatened, I hesitated before realising the honest answer was "yes".
Photograph: AP I was talking to a friend about For One Night Only - Simon and Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park (Radio 4, Saturday, 10.30am) and how much I liked it, and she, rather than nodding like a polite person, said: "Really, what did you like about it?" And I realised that the answer was: "All those Simon and Garfunkel songs".
