In any local energy situation the centres and controllers exert near-supremacy, but they are always conscious of the superenergy presence and the unrecognizable performance of the Unqualified Absolute.

A motley crowd saunters along the streets — Lascars off a P. and O., blond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japanese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Spaniards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp.

The latifundiary regions of Boyacá contained high proportions of servants and vagrants, but so did neighboring Socorro, where land was not so much badly distributed as too scarce.

The comic book reader performs closure within each panel, between panels, and among panels.