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Thesis: A Mythical Six Foot Six Giant

Theseus, I mean, he does have the sense of being not as manly as he as he likes to be. He's always comparing himself to the other boys around him. So he has to come up with clever ways to trip them up. She talks about in an afterward, she talks about how she was writing Thesis as a sort of six foot six giant. But it just wasn't coming, it just seemed really wrong. And then she thought if he's small and slight, that would be why he'd be inventing wrestling. In fact, you only need wrestling if you're slider and smaller.

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