impossibility

Following that accident, this moment in Paris must have seemed an impossibility.

The pair stands inches apart but the lighting, airy atmosphere and the weight of their suppressed affection turn that length into miles of impossibility.

“The idea that you could get so many countries to agree about something as complex as legally binding emissions targets was fascinating to us,” he added: “The impossibility of it.”

“Builds into a moving, comic meditation on the impossibility of imposing narrative structure on our lives. … A wise and piercing book.”

Is this foolishness, an impossibility given the metastasizing violence?