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To: Snowshoe who wrote (1646)	12/7/2005 10:19:55 PM
From: ManyMoose	of 2253

I just found this essay on the same subject. straightdope.com Ruesch wrote a sequel to Top of the World. I've read it, and it is good. I think it was called Back to Top of the World, or something like that. amazon.com I remember the conclusion where the Inuit protagonist left the white man's settlement in disgust. The ending revealed once again how these people were able to persevere under the harshest conditions imaginable. Nothing in our typical everyday experience prepares us or gives us the right to judge what they did to survive. Don't read the following if you hate spoilers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . He stalked off during a severe cold snap. He killed his enemy by urinating, and taking the icicle that formed before it hit the ground, stabbed the man with it. Then he defecated and formed the turd into a sort of hatchet, with which he chopped off the man's head. It was a long time ago that I read the book, but I think that's the gist of it.

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