The use of blood to instill numen into a thing is illustrated by the establishment and annual renewal of Terminus, the boundary marker […] The transfer of numinous power to persons has its example in the drinking of blood by seers in order to get oracular vision.

The flour merchant smiled to himself. “This Birbal is a talkative halfwit,” he thought. “He is buying time because he knows that oilman cannot prove that the money pouch is not mine.” But, even as he had these thoughts, the flour-monger felt the cold stare of Birbal upon him.

A great thickness of comparatively light sedimentary rocks accumulating in a geosyncline would ultimately ‘rebound’ because of isostasy – like a depressed rubber duck bouncing back upwards in a bath.

What is the appeal of femmeness since it doesn't have the obvious attractions of maleness, i.e. power and privilege, associated with it?