At the end of the episode, however, he realizes that Avery has emulated the military genius of Hannibal, outmaneuvering his Fabian strategy, and he ecstatically realizes they are a perfect match, far beyond the level of mere soul-mates.
Fifty years ago, the members of just-formed Pink Floyd were mere souls swimming in a fishbowl.
Cornwall's 480,000 people are scattered: the biggest town, St Austell, has a mere 21,000 souls.
It now estimates that the population will hit only 223m by 2050, which puts it a mere 5m souls above the government's own best guess.
During a 48-hour visit last week, The Economist found no fewer than four of the 18 current candidates in this agricultural state of a mere 3m souls.
The population in what the Census calls "micropolitan statistical areas" – smaller population centers with a core of fewer than 50,000 people – grew by a mere 8,000 souls.
Mr. Ericson loves to tell how Mr. Muti once panicked to hear that his Verdi Requiem choir would comprise a mere 66 souls.
In 1985, when the government decreed the village a new city — part of a stretch of state-planned developments east of Paris — Bussy Saint-Georges counted a mere 500 souls.
At the stadium earlier this month, on a typically sweaty Manaus evening, Nacional defeated Águia de Marabá in the Copa do Brasil in front of a mere 1,137 souls, and the shouts of players and coaches rose higher into the night sky than those of the fans.
In the event our timing was spot on - while we were there the oil terminal at Sullum Voe announced that it was to cut its work force in half - down from 1000 to around 500 - a devastating blow for community with a mere 23,000 souls.
This was literature with (sometimes smudgy) soul, not mere off-the-shelf lit-product marketed like soap.
