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<title>Stan</title>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rune-Stan.png"><img src="../img/runes/stan.svg" alt="Stan rune" title="Stan rune"></a></p>
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<h1>Stan</h1>
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<p>Traditional meaning: keystone</p>
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<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>iconoclasm</li>
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<li>either affirm a belief or abolish it</li>
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<li>(in middle of reading) you're on the right track</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>an intention to keep a promise</li>
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<p>There is not a known Norwegian or Anglo-Saxon rune poem for Stan.</p>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Either with full throat believe<br/>
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or throw it to the streets.<br/>
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There is no room for ambivalence<br/>
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when it comes to making yourself free.<br/>
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If you yourself do not care,<br/>
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then who will care for you?<br/>
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If you wish not to escape this hole,<br/>
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not even the strongest can your body exhume.</p>
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<p>You're striving to decorate your jail<br/>
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so hard no energy is left<br/>
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to break through the Veil.<br/>
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So bogged down with minutae<br/>
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of strangers hundreds of miles away<br/>
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you forget to attention pay<br/>
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to the wife<br/>
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that lies<br/>
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beside<br/>
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you.</p>
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<p>Lethe, I with burning heart desire<br/>
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that you hold me as your only standard<br/>
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if you insist that veneration to a deity<br/>
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is the natural state of humanity.<br/>
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If you have to succumb to your nature<br/>
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as a vessel of pure action,<br/>
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the only caretaker I will accept<br/>
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is the only one who shares your passions.</p>
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<p>Are we doing this<br/>
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or not?</p>
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</blockquote>
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