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,,,~«††£@# #@£††«~,,,
,,,,~«††£@ @£††«~,,,,
,,,,,~«††£ £††«~,,,,,
,,,,~«††£@ £ DREAM PALACE £ @£††«~,,,,
,,,~«††£@# ~ ----- ------ ~ #@£††«~,,,
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,,,,,~«††£ £††«~,,,,,
,,,,~«††£@ @£††«~,,,,
,,,~«††£@# NOT ACTUALLY A PALACE. A COTTAGE IN THE #@£††«~,,,
,,~«††£@## WOODS (TEMPERATE CLIMATE, RAINS EVERY ##@£††«~,,
,~«††£@### OTHER DAY, SPRINGS AND STREAMS AND ###@£††«~,
,,~«††£@## MYSTERIOUS IRON AND STONE ARTIFACTS, ##@£††«~,,
,,,~«††£@# BIRDLAND-ISH ETERNAL SPRING (LATE #@£††«~,,,
,,,,~«††£@ SPRING)) @£††«~,,,,
,,,,,~«††£ £††«~,,,,,
,,,,~«††£@ « @£††«~,,,,
,,,~«††£@# #@£††«~,,,
,,~«††£@## 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. @£††«~,,,,
,,,~«††£@# #@£††«~,,,
,,~«††£@## † ##@£††«~,,
,~«††£@### ###@£††«~,
,,~«††£@## IN THIS COTTAGE THERE'S A LOT OF RADIO ##@£††«~,,
,,,~«††£@# 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. ##@£††«~,,
,~«††£@### ###@£††«~,
,,~«††£@## @ ##@£††«~,,
,,,~«††£@# #@£††«~,,,
,,,,~«††£@ 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. #@£††«~,,,
,,,,~«††£@ @£††«~,,,,
,,,,,~«††£ , £††«~,,,,,
,,,,~«††£@ @£††«~,,,,
,,,~«††£@# 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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