I studied these drawings at the closest possible range – my eyes a few centimetres from the paper surface.
He should be able to get the lead from stall six and may be hard to catch on this drying surface.
Industrial nations can at best give a developing country a shallow surface insight into their know-how, and even then only in the context of foreign investment deals in which developed countries that host foreign direct investment inflows skilfully negotiate and secure such agreements, and have skilled workforces to absorb and expand on such prowess.
On the surface, this might seem as if it has absolutely zero relevance to the average American, who is more worried about whether he's going to outlive his nest egg than whether he'll leave a "legacy" for his children.
And, I assure you, these reports did not surface on April Fools' Day.
Fracking is also likely to take at least five years to produce commercial quantities of natural gas, and although a government-commissioned geological survey found that decades-worth of the fuel are likely to lie below the surface, it is not known how much can be extracted at economically viable rates.
Humiliated over his wife Iris's affair and the £50,000 loan she secured for her lover; embattled due to allegations about his financial dealings with property developers and revelations over his and his wife's parliamentary expenses, Robinson's position on the surface at least appears to be precarious.
A pod of dolphins rises and slips below the surface.
It's just that there's so much going on beneath the surface – and that this surface is so dazzling that it's sometimes hard to see beyond it.
"We basically took a view that they were so far gone and in a sense this was a very sobering statement of how much, below the surface, over the previous 10 years, the centre of gravity of Scottish public opinion had shifted in favour of the idea of independence," he says.
I dragged it by the hair to the surface, it was my friend's daughter.
