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 ## Outline
 
-* On Lyut's daily routine
-* On going to bed hungry and subsisting on the smoke of prayer
-* On cycles, days, sun, heat
+* On Lyut's life
+    * [On making incense](making-incense)
+    * On foraging and fishing
+    * On going to bed hungry and subsisting on the smoke of prayer
+    * On cycles, days, sun, heat
 * Confounding with sight
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+On the morning of every day, when days are warm and there is no rain, on days when Lyut knows when it is day and when it is night, he will gather his ingredients onto a small board and sit at the entrance to his cave and make his incense for the day.
+
+Lyut works with measured care, for he does not want to injure the pads of his paws nor nick his already-scuffed claws nor shave off any of his fur, nor,