Lord Xenu knows, the genre can be difficult enough to understand when reader and author speak the same language; the challenge becomes exponentially greater when an interpreter must take an idea that is by definition alien to native speakers, and somehow make it comprehensible to foreign audiences.
"But unconsciously he was seeking to reduce horror into a comprehensible and somehow palatable form".
There's a power in discovering the limits of our powers, especially in letting go of delusions that reality is emotionally either comprehensible or somehow alien.
Verlyn Klinkenborg ("Distracting Ourselves in the Glow of the Tube," Editorial Observer, Nov. 29) asks if the pervasive all-American need for television escapism is somehow more healthy now, or at least more comprehensible than the same mindless endeavor was before the horrors of Sept. 11.
This seems to suggest that the evil, sorrow, and pain that run through human life are illusory — or what seems even less comprehensible, that our experience of suffering is somehow good, that it is "all for the best".
One of the most inhibiting aspects of interstellar communications is the sense that, somehow, we need to get everything absolutely right and completely comprehensible the first time out.
Somehow, that tangled mess of tenses sorts out on the page into a scene that is entirely comprehensible and rather charming.
The levels of comprehensibility for each item were categorized on a 4-point scale (0, not comprehensible; 1, slightly comprehensible; 2, moderately comprehensible; and 3, highly comprehensible).
There will be a return to weekly bin collections, twice-daily postal services, comprehensible train ticket pricing and all the other things that 100% of British people wanted to keep but were somehow abolished anyway.
To make infinity comprehensible.
