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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. ###*††~~,,
,,,~~††*## ##*††~~,,,
,,,,~~††*# 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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