[…] Deuteronomy places the reader in a dilemma, a bivious position. He must choose between two ways that the text opens before him: I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live (30:19). A treaty is a text that structures reality in a bivious form.

Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.

The cold weather intensified the paleness of the landscape.

I'll join you at three, if the vivers can tarry so long.