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or he fashions it into something that vaguely resembles some miserable creature. He covers it with red paint, giving it a rosy hue where the creature's flesh is supposed to be. He covers over every flaw in the wood.
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Afterward he picks up the leftover bark that he had stripped away and uses it to cook a meal for himself. He eats his fill and
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then picks up one of the leftover pieces of wood, one that wasn't good for anything, a crooked hard piece with broken ends where the branches had been. Having nothing else to do, he takes this piece of wood and starts carving. By a process of trial and error, he's finally able to give it a human shape,
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or he fashions it into something that vaguely resembles some miserable creature. He covers it with red paint, giving it a rosy hue where the creature's flesh is supposed to be. He covers over every flaw in the wood.
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Finally, he makes a perfect little shrine for it and fastens the shrine securely to the wall with a nail
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so that it doesn't fall down. He knows full well that it can't do anything for itself. After all, it's only an image, and it requires help.