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           still unknown  to me, other than through           
    ,         dreams*. apparently made for making             
           holes. they  may be dark and monochrome.           
   .                     they may not.                ,       
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       §   white  powder,  dosed  by  way  of  key?           
                                                              
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           *a  red  cylinder,  wide  as  a  finger.           
                glossy freckled ceramics, with                
                something organic inside, being               
      .    corrupted before your eyes -  turning to           
           ash, but there's no flame.  you hold  it           
           up to  your  nose,  suck  it  in  with a           
           sharp  inhale.  exit   to  the  balcony.   =       
                                                              
           here on  the  fifth floor,  with  a view           
           over  the  parking  lot,   things  start  ,        
                folding into each other, like                 
            collapsing a cardboard box. dimensions         ,  
              becoming flat and adjacent. pressed             
           into  each  other. creases are flattened  ~        
           out, distances  disappear, the  world is           
           mangled  down  to  two  dimensions.  and       .   
           suddenly  light  falls  on  the edge  of           
       ,   everything rather  than the  surface: it       ^   
                   all goes completely dark.                  
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