A fascinating document.   Quite a long time ago, we were engaged by a translation bureau to word process a tender document. This was produced page for page in English, French and German. The document was a specification for landing of a research station in a geographical area of the world which is icebound for most of the year. It stipulated what was required -- down to the last nut, bolt, screw and bobsled -- including heating systems, transport systems, survival systems, emergency communication systems -- even chess pieces, playing cards and films for the entertainment of station staff. It also detailed the time slot during the year when the equipment would have to be landed in terms of accessibility in freezing and thawing weather. On the one hand, intensely boring (as specifications can be). Yet with imagination one could envisage the coming into being of something which was not there before.