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##¤**/~:.. [picture of a deer head, in a garland ..:~/**¤##
###¤**/~:. woven of various grasses. .:~/**¤###
##¤**/~:.. the deer has a crown of rowan, and is ..:~/**¤##
#¤**/~:... looking at the viewer.] ...:~/**¤#
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###¤**/~:. in the north, the deer is often used as .:~/**¤###
##¤**/~:.. a symbol for the forest's agency, or ..:~/**¤##
#¤**/~:... its self-knowledge. watching eyes. ...:~/**¤#
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###¤**/~:. warmer regions instead ascribe it the .:~/**¤###
##¤**/~:.. knife (teeth, rumors of violence), or ..:~/**¤##
#¤**/~:... obsession (unblinking eyes, always ...:~/**¤#
##¤**/~:.. awake, scrapie-like behavior). ..:~/**¤##
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##¤**/~:.. the deer is a cross between a horse and ..:~/**¤##
#¤**/~:... a dog. it bears a resemblance to a ...:~/**¤#
##¤**/~:.. young salix tree, and has a ..:~/**¤##
###¤**/~:. sweet-smelling nose, like honey. .:~/**¤###
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#¤**/~:... the horns of a deer is called antlers. ...:~/**¤#
##¤**/~:.. they have a complex fractal shape, and ..:~/**¤##
###¤**/~:. are believed to enable the deer to .:~/**¤###
##¤**/~:.. "fold" through passages which should be ..:~/**¤##
#¤**/~:... too narrow for them. antlers from dead ...:~/**¤#
##¤**/~:.. deer seem to lose this power. ..:~/**¤##
###¤**/~:. .:~/**¤###
##¤**/~:.. a deer's heart has two chambers, where ..:~/**¤##
#¤**/~:... it stores all the secrets it might see ...:~/**¤#
##¤**/~:.. during the course of it's life. with ..:~/**¤##
###¤**/~:. age the secrets will harden into a .:~/**¤###
##¤**/~:.. caramellized structure, which will ..:~/**¤##
#¤**/~:... eventually block the flow of blood, and ...:~/**¤#
##¤**/~:.. kill the deer. ..:~/**¤##
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##¤**/~:.. [picture of a deer head. from the far ..:~/**¤##
#¤**/~:... side, looking the other way. its ...:~/**¤#
##¤**/~:.. antlers are bloodied.] ..:~/**¤##
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