Well, it does not contradict the riddle as I said, only it is not advisable to focus on this too much. This might happen in any riddle - you might just focus on some part of the riddle which is not that much important as some other, and therefore take it from the wrong end. Since I know the answer, if I dug deeper into it, I might say that it actually is correct, but I think no one will solve the riddle by focusing on this. So, sorry if I confused someone, and now it would be better to just ignore it.
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mhagain - very interesting idea, I'd never have thought of it, and quite inventive. But not correct, sorry. On the other hand, since your interpretation is completely different from what we have seen here thus far, you have broken some stereotypes in interpretation of this riddle, so I think your attempt was very good.
I'm sure we are closing to the solution.
