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Look at that duck.

Look at it hanging there. It was quacking vigorously and it was fluttering and it was a very angry whisking duck indeed and maybe it seemed while it was quacking that all things would be well; but now he has whisked it too furiously and it is dead and now its spirit can never rest.

It glowers there.

Hans seizes up its spirit. He weaves it together with other things. He uses it as a portion of the chain to bind the nithrid; to bind it down, to lid it and seal it in its nithrid-hole, somewhere deep beneath the earth.

For that!

For that, he would whisk a duck!

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