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†«,¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ woods (temperate climate, rains every ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨,«†
††«,¨¨¨¨¨¨ other day, springs and streams and ¨¨¨¨¨¨,«††
$††«,¨¨¨¨¨ mysterious iron and stone artifacts, ¨¨¨¨¨,«††$
#$††«,¨¨¨¨ birdland-ish eternal spring (late ¨¨¨¨,«††$#
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£#$††«,¨¨¨ i wake up every morning at six am. it's ¨¨¨,«††$#£
#$††«,¨¨¨¨ dark, and the stars are out, but the ¨¨¨¨,«††$#
$††«,¨¨¨¨¨ sun is about to rise. its a long day, ¨¨¨¨¨,«††$
††«,¨¨¨¨¨¨ before it fades to night again, and ¨¨¨¨¨¨,«††
†«,¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ then it stays so until i fall asleep. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨,«†
††«,¨¨¨¨¨¨ it doesn't rise unless i've had my ¨¨¨¨¨¨,«††
$††«,¨¨¨¨¨ dreams. ¨¨¨¨¨,«††$
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#£#$††«,¨¨ equipment, sound stuff, synths, tape ¨¨,«††$#£#
£#$††«,¨¨¨ players. pen and paper, books, cameras, ¨¨¨,«††$#£
#$††«,¨¨¨¨ mirrors, prisms, and various things to ¨¨¨¨,«††$#
$††«,¨¨¨¨¨ do art with. the fridge is filled with ¨¨¨¨¨,«††$
††«,¨¨¨¨¨¨ differet foods, all of them intriguing, ¨¨¨¨¨¨,«††
†«,¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ slightly weird. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨,«†
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£#$††«,¨¨¨ i have friends - there's a cat, and a ¨¨¨,«††$#£
#£#$††«,¨¨ dog (who is ridicolously large and ¨¨,«††$#£#
##£#$††«,¨ wants to be the big spoon). i listen to ¨,«††$#£##
#£#$††«,¨¨ the shortwave radio, and transmit a bit ¨¨,«††$#£#
£#$††«,¨¨¨ myself, songs and poetry, and found ¨¨¨,«††$#£
#$††«,¨¨¨¨ sounds from the forest. the others tell ¨¨¨¨,«††$#
$††«,¨¨¨¨¨ of their lives, play the guitar for me, ¨¨¨¨¨,«††$
††«,¨¨¨¨¨¨ and tell tales of the old world. i ¨¨¨¨¨¨,«††
†«,¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ consider them friends as well. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨,«†
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£#$††«,¨¨¨ most importantly, there's a two square ¨¨¨,«††$#£
#£#$††«,¨¨ meter area on the floor where i can ¨¨,«††$#£#
##£#$††«,¨ "save" things. whatever i put in here ¨,«††$#£##
#£#$††«,¨¨ will not be affected by the nightly ¨¨,«††$#£#
£#$††«,¨¨¨ reset. everything else, however, is ¨¨¨,«††$#£
#$††«,¨¨¨¨ completely reset overnight: synth ¨¨¨¨,«††$#
$††«,¨¨¨¨¨ patches removed, food uneaten, wounds ¨¨¨¨¨,«††$
††«,¨¨¨¨¨¨ healed, and wherever and whenever i'd ¨¨¨¨¨¨,«††
†«,¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ fall asleep i'd always wake up fully ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨,«†
††«,¨¨¨¨¨¨ rested in my bed. sometimes there's ¨¨¨¨¨¨,«††
$††«,¨¨¨¨¨ accidents where i lose stuff by ¨¨¨¨¨,«††$
#$††«,¨¨¨¨ forgetting to put them in the square. ¨¨¨¨,«††$#
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#£#$††«,¨¨ at night, i have demi-lucid dreams ¨¨,«††$#£#
£#$††«,¨¨¨ where the spirits of the forest around ¨¨¨,«††$#£
#$††«,¨¨¨¨ the cottage tries to communicate. here, ¨¨¨¨,«††$#
$††«,¨¨¨¨¨ it's not endless but connected to a ¨¨¨¨¨,«††$
††«,¨¨¨¨¨¨ large sprawling city, where my radio ¨¨¨¨¨¨,«††
†«,¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ friends live. we go exploring together ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨,«†
††«,¨¨¨¨¨¨ - things are deep and dark - but unlike ¨¨¨¨¨¨,«††
$††«,¨¨¨¨¨ me, they never remember during the day. ¨¨¨¨¨,«††$
#$††«,¨¨¨¨ this is a mystery we often discuss. ¨¨¨¨,«††$#
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