As “savages” become soldiers, and soldiers become social activists, the tribe has rapidly developed a First Nations identity as advocates of both stripes mobilize memories of past resistance in different contexts. Whether the state is green or blue, therefore, Taroko memories will continue to shape the relationship between state and tribe.

… M. le Coultre, the distinguished astronomer of Geneva, has once more declared that the Martians are trying to signal to us. … How long M. le Coultre's suggestion will stand before it goes the way of other similar conjectures now exploded, no one can say.

. . . but too much security on the republican part will give time to his talents and indefatigableness to extricate them.

Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).