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Update: I would not have embarked on this powerscaling venture if I'd known how thoroughly Mark Twain was going to roast me.
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There's a lot of argument about how Odysseus shot through axes. But the one that makes the most sense to me is that they were the long kind without the hafts stuck in the ground so the holes lined up.