Sublime

Good times breed laxity, laxity breeds unreliable numbers, and ultimately, unreliable numbers bring about bad times. This simple rhythm of markets is as predictable as human avarice.

discipline. With hindsight, our capital cycle approach has failed at times when we have underestimated the impact on industries of political and legal interference, disruptive technologies and globalisation.

luteofulvous

extreme prejudice. A lion and a lamb lying side by side,

John thought the word ‘narke’ meant something like ‘lies unmoving, beneath’. The next part seemed to invoke ‘the heroes’ – that’s the meaning of the ‘isiinkolobo’ word. Then there was a word relating to carrying – ‘te-ro-bare’ – which means that the necropolis has received the deceased, who is named as ‘Ta[ch]seoonus’.

The old, the tired, the ruined, got done in by bites. Turned into leaking sacks of mush. Whereas the young, they swigged venom to the lees and it supercharged their bodies. They could not be stopped.

Ordinary people were reluctant to retaliate against a predatory tiger for fear it would take offense, not to mention revenge, and so their day-to-day lives were shaped—and sometimes tyrannized—by efforts to at once avoid and propitiate these marauding gods.