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&.&..&&..& feel as if you are venturing into some .&..&&&.&&
&&&.&.&.&. vast structure, but you are in fact &&.&..&&..
..&&&&&&&& leaving any such thing at the entrance. .&&&.&.&.&
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.&.......& submitting to an inescapable darkness, &&&.....&.
&&......&& the world around you becomes more of a ..&....&&.
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.&...&.&.. direction and a taste. &&&.&..&&.
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.&.&...&.. inescapeable darkness, because if you .&..&&&&&&
&&&&..&&.& bring a candle or mount electrical &&.&.....&
...&.&.&&& lights, the walls only serves as .&&&....&.
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.&....&.&. existence ends and the darkness beneath &.&&..&.&.
&&...&&&&& it begins. &&.&.&&&&.
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&&.&&...&& like an inverted mandelbrot, the real &...&..&.&
.&&.&..&.& cave is actually not the pockets, but &..&&.&&&.
&.&&&.&&&. the black around them. keep that in &.&.&&..&.
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.....&&&&& 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 .&&.&.&.&.
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