This book, which is impossible to adapt, it turns out is impossible to adapt".
"Most houses in Berlin are impossible to adapt".
Defending low-lying cities against a rising sea level is difficult and expensive, and it is impossible to adapt to ocean acidification.
Many a case has also been made for Neuromancer, the 1984 William Gibson novel which popularised terms such as cyberspace and the matrix, being impossible to adapt for the big screen.
However, Dr Hayashi said that was still a distant prospect: "I must say that it is impossible to adapt immediately this system to human stem cells, due to a number of not only scientific reasons, but also ethical reasons".
I thought of the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman telling me earlier this year that he's trying to write a novel that's impossible to adapt into a movie, that's also "about an impossible movie". .
For example we've already been asked if there would be a 'flatscreen' version of VERSUS later on, and we really hope that VERSUS will be impossible to adapt on a screen, because of the degree with which we'll take into account the Satosphere's space and context.
It was impossible to disagree.
It was impossible to say.
It was impossible to sleep.
