It would also be many years before I learned about [ Donald Winnicott's ] primary contribution to psychoanalysis, the concept of the transitional object. Babies often make use of a special possession as they learn that they're separate from their mother. It occupies a territory between the subjective and the objective. It's not me, but not not-me, either.

Through me, through me only, although ye scoff / And scowl at my doings, can ye throw off / Your fadesome mortality; …

As a result of severe and recurrent liquefaction damage, and the infeasibility of timely and effective land repair, more than 7000 residential properties in Christchurch were red-zoned (designated as currently uneconomic to repair) and purchased by central government at a cost exceeding NZ$1.6 billion.

The rest, in imitation, to like arms / Betook them.