Lion’s Roar Analysis 01

“You didn’t get around to talking about the Lion’s Roar Exemption. You must keep the train track here. All winter (!)”

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Thanks Hucka D. What exactly *is* this place I’ve created today? It’s bigger and more substantial than Billfork, even. Is it a new center? Is Byng even more important than TILE Creek even?

Hucka D.:

No. Not really. Different.

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Bee Line and now Lion’s Roar. A different kind of bee’s line, straight and curvy now. Is the track called Bee’s Line?

Hucka D.:

No. It was called The Lion. Like The Line.

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Roaring might be the marbles racing on this Lion line, then.

Hucka D.:

Correct. They rumbled. The town felt it. Roars.

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Interesting.

Hucka D.:

Isn’t it.

bb:

It is.

Hucka D.:

Now you’ve got to find Stu, Spit, and Sid. Kansas must be explored.

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I thought of a slogan: Lion’s Roar, the New York of Kansas.

Hucka D.:

Good enough (!)

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Then I’ve got to think about Rock Island and the intrusion of Illinois/Iowa into Kansas from the north — the island floats in from Impasse, theoretically.

Hucka D.:

No theory. Truth (!!)

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(!!!)

Hucka D.:

(!!!!)

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Is it trying to make its way down to Lion’s Roar?

Hucak D.:

Yes. (!!!!!)

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And Periwinkle Falls blocks it.

Hucka D.:

Precisely. (pause) Thank God.

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What would happen if the two collide?

Hucka D.:

What would happen if New York and Chicago slammed into each other and all their skyscrapers got mixed up in the jumble?

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Don’t know.

Hucka D.:

Think.

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Er…