Why are you getting stuck into me all of the sudden? I didn't do anything!

The Old Norse word for wolf (vargr) was also the legal term for “outlaw”—that is, the wolf is that person who is outside the law. In ancient Germanic law, the term wargus was used to refer to both the outlaw and the wolf-man.]

Because the overall system architecture negates, it is appropriate to call the structural principle of this order negarchical and the overall order a negarchy. The tasks that define security negarchies are not arbitrary, and are intimately connected to the logics of both hierarchy and anarchy. Negarchy is the arrangement of institutions needed to prevent simultaneously the emergence of hierarchy and anarchy. In a workable negarchy, the particular configurations of negatives vary with the relative strengths of multiple threats, but the antithesis to hierarchy and anarchy remains constant. Understood in this way, negarchy is a third – and liberal – structural principle of political order, along with hierarchy and anarchy.

The opening, for example, is no more than a highly skilful piece of onomatopoeics without any musical, emotional or even literary content.