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Protective mimicry is an old trick. People, especially those who are vulnerable, use it as readily as any other species. A very effective variation of the practice employs passing for a dangerous beast, Often, after a closer examination, the threatening individual turns out to be mostly harmless. |
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In behavior, such people are akin to griffins: prominent claws and beak contrast markedly to pacific demeanor |
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My first glimpse of Tanya: a slender, pretty schoolgirl, as quiet and inconspicuous as most of them.
Just moments later I had a chance to see her in a debate -- in all her majestic and overbearing persuasiveness.
The roar of her arguments was akin to that of a lioness and altogether unexpected from such a diminitive creature.
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Having spent some time in her company, I grew convinced that she was a delicate and refined being. Much of that impression must have been imparted |
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| Over time, as more and more of her images accumulated on film, it became obvious that rather than a meek schoolgirl given to excitement in arguments, Tanya was not unlike a lioness wearing the smile of a Cheshire cat when good manners required. |
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