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.........- ##@@@@@@@@§¤††~-. cave .-~††¤§@@@@@@@@## -.........
.......... #####@@@§¤††~-. geometry .-~††¤§@@@##### ..........
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.......... # the name is a little mis- # ..........
.......... ~ giving, because of course there is ~ ..........
.........- no real geometry in the caves. you may -.........
........-~ feel as if you are venturing into some ~-........
.......-~† vast structure, but you are in fact †~-.......
......-~†† leaving any such thing at the entrance. ††~-......
.....-~††¤ ¤††~-.....
....-~††¤§ leaving physical tethers behind, §¤††~-....
...-~††¤§@ submitting to an inescapable darkness, @§¤††~-...
..-~††¤§@@ the world around you becomes more of a @@§¤††~-..
.-~††¤§@@# manifestation of your mind, or a #@@§¤††~-.
..-~††¤§@@ collective mind, with a shape and a @@§¤††~-..
...-~††¤§@ direction and a taste. @§¤††~-...
....-~††¤§ §¤††~-....
.....-~††¤ inescapeable darkness, because if you ¤††~-.....
......-~†† bring a candle or mount electrical ††~-......
.......-~† lights, the walls only serves as †~-.......
........-~ markers to where the tiny spatial ~-........
.........- existence ends and the darkness beneath -.........
.......... it begins. ..........
.......... ..........
.......... like an inverted mandelbrot, the real ..........
.......... cave is actually not the pockets, but ..........
.......... the black around them. keep that in ..........
.........- mind. -.........
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.....-~††¤ the moisture that permeates any cave ¤††~-.....
....-~††¤§ worth it's name... it's the water the §¤††~-....
...-~††¤§@ world rose from. it's the water you @§¤††~-...
..-~††¤§@@ drown in, in your dreams. @@§¤††~-..
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..-~††¤§@@ the only sounds in the cave are those @@§¤††~-..
...-~††¤§@ that you make yourselves. they may be @§¤††~-...
....-~††¤§ distorted by the stone structure, and §¤††~-....
.....-~††¤ amplified by your mind. try not to be ¤††~-.....
......-~†† alarmed, try to remember the persons ††~-......
.......-~† and objects around you, and you can †~-.......
........-~ discern a mirage from a friend. ~-........
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