Slothrop gives him the mandala. He hopes it will work like the mantra that Enzian told him once, mba-kayere (I am passed over), mba-kayere…a spell against Marvy tonight, against Tchitcherine. A mezuzah. Safe passage through a bad night

unconsolidated rock

Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.

In the 1980s, suprastate institutions such as the World Bank and World Trade Organization began appealing to food security discourse as a way to justify neoliberal trade liberalization projects ( Otero et al. 2013 ).