Yet even when the reader's imagination can be relied on, there's still the author's anxiety about getting it horribly wrong and, like Shakespeare, marooning the characters on Bohemia's non-existent coast.
While the labor economists and econometricians are still arguing about which of their many studies can be relied upon, there are quite a few things about minimum wages, and their impact on the economy, that we know for sure.
Meanwhile, with regard to the many actions executed in the field that allowed any "further catastrophe" to be avoided despite such a possibility having been assumed in circumstances where equipment and manuals could not be relied on, there has been almost no analysis, assessment nor lessons gleaned.
Accurate image based recognition of individual adipose layers relies on there being clear and sharp margins between adjacent layers and is enhanced by any difference in appearance there may be between layers.
"You can usually rely on there being floods in Mozambique in February," muses one official.
But we simply cannot rely on there being enough exceptional leaders to make this a mainstream delivery option.
"They are relying on there being no more rain downstream to contribute to the flooding problems we already have," Mr. Holste said.
It would be usual, at this point in a review, to summarise the plot, but that relies upon there being a plot to summarise.
"We can't just rely on there being a bunch sprint," Mark Cavendish's team manager, Wilfried Peeters, said – although Cavendish is today's clear favourite to don the maillot jaune.
Aside from the pro-nuclear zealots, most protagonists in favour of nuclear power rely on "there is no alternative" advocacy – because of climate change, energy security, the "lights going out", we need nuclear, the argument runs.
