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Jendi's avatar

Ninurta was the original Gerber Baby, don't you know.

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Janice Ellen Bressler's avatar

Beyond anything I could hope or dream for in terms of reading material on a Tuesday lunch break in the end days of late capitalism. Thank you!

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Auros's avatar

Did we miss a chapter, or at least a paragraph, somewhere? I thought at the end of part four, Our Hero was still clinging to a rock, rather bedraggled and hopeless, but still more or less alive. I suppose he must have slipped off the rock at some point, but that doesn't seem to have been narrated...

I suppose losing chunks of the story would be in keeping with the traditions of cuneiform tablets.

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Lily's avatar

The secret trick is, there are two Chapter Fives. Here's 5 the First: https://www.thechatner.com/p/a-good-day-to-join-the-hittite-army-bef

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Citoyenne Kane's avatar

Thank you! I had been looking for that most delectable opening line:

-I wonder if you have ever been on a descent to the underworld?-

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Auros's avatar

Aha, thank you! So we possibly should have a link up top of this, to The Earlier Chapter Five. :-D

I guess, as with rabbits, all numbers greater than four blur together. All chapters henceforth are Chapter Hrair.

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Will Sharp's avatar

Poor Ninurta

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