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..#..#.... it's all - it's all about circles, about .....#.##.
...#..#... toruses ("donuts"), it's about spinning .......###
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...#.##... powers. lights me up in the subtle ..#..#....
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.......### the plant lures the mist from atop the .....#..#.
.......#.# dark sea water. it's siphoned inside ......#..#
#........# the great mechanism. .......#..
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..#....... there's internal workers there, capable .........#
#..#...... of surviving turbine conditions. ..........
.#..#..... they're escaped and reeducated ..........
..#..#.... liquid glass cats, always carfully ..........
...#..#... adjusting the mirrors inside the torus, ..........
....#..#.. absorbing and emanating various mist ..........
.....#..#. wavelengths, feeling for other things ..........
......#..# in the mist. ..........
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........#. water spirits are separated, pushed ..........
.........# into the center funnel, into the sharp #.........
.......... prism at its bottom.their voices ##........
.......... combine each night into a wonderful ###.......
.......... chorus as they are refracted. #.##......
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.......... the dam. the hydroplant at the edge of ##..#.##..
.......... the sea. we power our little pets with .##...###.
.......... this energy. .###..#.##
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