The question, in Wright's piece, regards the practicalities that followed.
The practicalities that go into disappearing and reappearing, into slipping out of one existence and into another, all the while keeping enough of a toehold at home, are sketched lightly — too lightly; their labors appear to have gone into keeping that complex mechanism functioning, and their vision of romantic connection is a grab bag of comfortable clichés.
The practicalities that impact on the way women shop and dress, the need for comfortable shoes or warm clothes, rain cover, or a way to carry possessions – have long been ushered off-stage, as if the circumstances in which you might be carrying bags, or an extra layer (say, having a job and not having a driver) were a shameful secret.
In fact, before he rolls out a programme of NCT missions, Mr Wilkie might want to look at the market for pointlessly painful deliveries and at the practicalities that stand between residents in crowded or notably unharmonious properties and their accomplishing the NCT's beau ideal: a candlelit home birth in a warm pool.
When preparing for the loss of a pet, you also need to prepare for all the practicalities that follow.
But it's in the practicalities that the prime minister's approach slips from draconian to dull-witted.
And it is these concerns rather than the practicalities that pose the greatest threat to the pan-African project.
For these young men, crime is a sort of drug the excitement that it provides, along with the complexity of the practicalities that it requires, fills their life with the matter and the emotion of drama.
I don't mean the index (though the start of this one is appetising enough: "activities 86-98; see also bungy jumping, canoeing, cycling, diving... ....... Nor do I suggest you commence with the practicalities that some travel-guide publishers consign to the latter part of their books.
