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answer:Oh, dear. This is really very hard to understand. Perhaps start by making each sentence shorter. And state a clear premise about the roll of a crow in liberating souls (whose? Men’s? Other crows? You are using too many abstracts and vague statements. What’s “the fool crow”? Who’s the “omniscient and omnipotent ****”? Is English your native language?

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