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Convinced of the utter impossibility of a fair trial, Dündar took up an offer to come to Germany to write a column for the German newspaper Die Zeit.

The philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote an essay titled "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?," in which he pointed out the difference between the difficulty of imagining what it would be like for him to be a bat (how it would feel to hang upside down in the dark, or to fly about and steer by sound, and so on) and the utter impossibility of imagining what it is like for a bat to be a bat.

The utter impossibility of this ultimatum was assuaged when Chinese citizens began donating money to repay the artist's debt in what began to seem like a performance piece of its own.

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Yes, SSX, the groundbreaking snowboarding franchise, has returned to make a whole new generation dizzy with its winning combination of realistic physics and utter impossibility.

But while there's no denying that 15 years of existence is a remarkable achievement for any franchise, the facts of this particular case reach even beyond that, bordering on utter impossibility.

The effect of this surprisingly simple and — cannibalism aside — familiar back story is not to humanize Hannibal or even in any meaningful way to explain him, but rather to emphasize, by the very similarity to superhero origin stories, the character's utter impossibility, his pure does-not-occur-in-nature absurdity.

Others recognized the impossibility of complete objectivity.

From one perspective his installation can seem to be a devious commentary on the very bind American museums face — not a work that tries to bring genuine political debate into the halls of the art world but one that, through its utter neutrality and reductiveness, shows the near impossibility of the attempt.

Also, you constantly hear, read and utter a stream of snarky, cynical comments about the impossibility of any of us ever being happy with another human.

About the impossibility of defining pornography, Justice Potter Stewart, in the most famous phrase ever uttered by the US Supreme Court, said he couldn't define it, but "I know it when I see it".

An impossibility, of course.

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