On final descent you pass over large areas of more modern factories, a reminder that, after a long malaise, the local economy is getting better.
"We needed some mechanism for feedback and this was 2007, where it had become so clear with sites like YouTube, that at some point, these networks get big enough… and you pass over into this world of Internet awfulness.
"Once you pass over the Marine Parkway bridge, it's a whole new world".
You can be too efficient, too focused on your list of desired characteristics, so intent on getting the best deal that you pass over the right one".
You will know it when you pass over it because it is one of the few places in New York where the street grid is completely broken.
At the junction with the Avenue de Verdun you pass over the underground Paillon river, the invisible boundary between the old and new towns.
Walk down Nevsky Prospect, the central boulevard, and you pass over endless canals before eventually arriving at the magnificent Hermitage Museum and the blue Neva river.
You might want to grip the handrail a little more tightly as you pass over one of the many viaducts en route; the highest on the Overlander line – Makatote Viaduct – is 79m (260ftallall.
It's the only serious plot mistake that Russell makes — as portrayed, it's flatly unconvincing — but you pass over it, because the momentum of the story is irresistible.
As he later told Salon, "The idea that something so simple and, really, so aesthetically uninteresting — which for me meant you pass over it for the interesting, complex stuff — can actually be nourishing in a way that arch, meta, ironic, pomo stuff can't, that seems to me to be important".
