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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 ##§%††~~..
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..~~††%§## 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. ~.........
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.......~~† 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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