Both characters are strangely, and emasculatingly, dependent on the objects of their fixation. Both bow rather mechanically to the pressures of duty at the expense of emotional and sexual fulfillment.

By 1698 Tzevan-Ravdan had solidified his mastery over the Zunghar Khanate. In 1697 he had quickly moved his forces into Galdan's former domains in Chinese Turkestan to achieve domination there, too.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves?

Apnea of prematurity represents a striking disorder of respiratory control.