We hug intellectual deformities, if they bear our names

In fact, Hamsun now completes his allusion to the story of the Gadarene swine alluded to by Pauline in the previous novel. That the reader is expected to recall the Biblical story is quite evident from one simple fact: the number of sheep, according to August's rough reckoning, is over two thousand; the herd of Gadarene swine numbered about two thousand.

[…], let him go, And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar.

Superpredators theoretically arise from dysfunctional homes, inadequate schools, and morally bankrupt communities.