Thresher maws are subterranean carnivores that spend their entire lives eating or searching for something to eat. Threshers reproduce via spores that lie dormant for millennia, yet are robust enough to survive prolonged periods in deep space and atmospheric re-entry. As a result, thresher spores appear on many worlds, spread by previous generations of space travelers.

A pardon, Mr. Preston! Ah! A pardon, please! the Englishman apologized at once. I say, I did not intend to pry into personals, really, he protested. And really, you know, he continued, if you see how I meant it, it was not personal after all, he argued.

As is evident in the figure, the allocation is always between one product and the average pool of products (product NN (nomen nescio)) which supplies or takes from the pool of material.

But here a twist in the stream brought us out from the bushes