Melnyk and I start in for shore just before reaching theinvisibleline drawn out from the Montauk lighthouse, where the riptide can get unbearably strong.
More is clearly more here, but the Leela Palace stays on the right side of that invisibleline that divides the literally spectacular (as in a spectacle to behold) from the over-the-top tacky.
When the plumb line exactly intersected both stars, one about 10 degrees above theinvisible pole and the other 10 degrees below it, the sight line to the horizon would aim directly north.
But when some of his employees started recruiting on a university campus, the students' parents complained furiously and the government took their side, making it plain that Mr Smith's firm had crossed an invisibleline.
Then it was as if an invisible yet intensely heated finger were drawn through the heather between me and the Martians, and all along a curving line beyond the sand pits the dark ground smoked and crackled.