Therianthropism, as described in my chapter on the rhetoric of animality, appears only to operate successfully when used as a means of discrediting or demeaning other people. In showing them partly in animal form (or with animal characteristics or attributes), therianthropism does pictorial violence - symbolic violence - to the image of one's rivals or opponents.

As a result I find the mana weave to be a fair means of randomizing a deck provided it is done face down, and followed by 1 or 2 riffle shuffles.

In all Penelope's devotion to her husband there is an ever present sense that the lady doth protest too much.

These aggregations of carnivorous and omnivorous fish, as the formerly described assemblies of herbivorous and planktonivorous fish, display food-sharing patterns that are complicated and are probably more highly evolved.