Porcophobia and porcophilia — thus probably originate in a nighttime of human sacrifice and even cannibalism at which the “holy” texts often do more than hint.

Most of these mothers also had dominating mothers and submissive fathers of their own, and their husbands had also been obedient sons of dominating mothers; in Freudian terms, the castrativeness all around was rather extreme.

It is a crop, like a crop of corn, which differs from a natural field of grasses in the way that a crop of trees differs from a woods.

It is not that the sword-flourisher threatens himself only by calling forth another sword-flourisher to challenge him. That is only half the picture.