Another was that it finessed the prickly matter of possession.
Affections are not things and persons never can become possessions, matters of ownership.
For Fermor, the act of writing was itself a matter of creative possession.
The only thing we do know is that, as Anne Fadiman writes in her cross-cultural classic about a medical drama among the Hmong community in Central California, "When The Spirit Catches You, You Fall Down," to one person it's a clear case of epilepsy, to another a matter of spirit possession.
Ireland dominated every statistic except the one that mattered, enjoying 71 percent of possession and 77 percent of territory.
We can read the inventory of Margrieta van Varick as a matter-of-fact list of old possessions -- or as a kind of Mother's Day card from three hundred years ago.
"I've always felt that in matches likely to be settled by the odd goal, it is the quality and location of possession that matters.
He matter-of-factly speaks of his father being taken to prison for drug possession and nearly beating his mother to death.
He is all of 29, likes diamonds, occasionally swears, wears a rosary, and let's not forget the matter of his indictment on charges of possession illegal handguns or, for sheer tabloid value, whether he is still involved with the actress Jennifer Lopez.
To make matters worse – much worse – the high priest of possession football from Amsterdam has not shown any inclination to develop a defensive methodology worthy of the name.
