He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.

A corporate desire for identity and recognition also helps to explain the unusual coincidence of a traditional brunaille exterior in conjunction with a crowded, lively, visually striking interior painted in the most novel, fashionable, local style.

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It would be wrong to use this as a direct proof of God's existence and equally wrong to imagine, along with the atheologists in cosmological physics, that a system of equations can bootstrap its own parameters and constants, also actualizing what is described by those specific equations.