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A<\/span>s for Edmund, he has eaten the sacredness of death.<\/p>\n If you wrote it all out as a little list of ingredients \u2014<\/p>\n *\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The footfalls of a cat<\/p>\n *\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The arms of a four-armed ape<\/p>\n *\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The spittle of a bird<\/p>\n *\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The torment of the willing<\/p>\n *\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The bearing witness to the wrongness<\/p>\n *\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>and the perseverance of hope<\/p>\n \u2014 you\u2019d see that he\u2019s making pretty good progress, as Gulleys go, against the chain that binds his wolf. A bit of eating an impossible thing here, a bit of luck with a swarm of scissors happening to attack the world and rattle down a chimney and cut a key bit of tape there, and hey presto, he\u2019s on his way!<\/p>\n Which is pretty scary, I guess. I mean, that wolf (I hear), it\u2019s going to eat the world.<\/p>\n But it also kind of goes to show you that this story isn\u2019t about Edmund, either.<\/p>\n I mean, we haven\u2019t even seen<\/i> a four-armed ape.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" s for Edmund, he has eaten the sacredness of death. If you wrote it all out as a little list of ingredients \u2014 *\u00a0\u00a0 The footfalls of a cat *\u00a0\u00a0 The arms of a four-armed ape *\u00a0\u00a0 The spittle of a bird *\u00a0\u00a0 The sacredness of death *\u00a0\u00a0 The torment of the willing *\u00a0\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-5","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Wolf_2b_Partially_Chained.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6232,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions\/6232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}*\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The sacredness of death <\/s><\/p>\n*\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>and the tape that binds an emu<\/s><\/p>\n