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#¶§£§:«~¨¨ i couldn't go to. regardless how much ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ discussed with others, or pointed out ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ on maps, i could not think of it when ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ alone. i would often travel past the ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ fork, where a right turn would surely ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ take me there, but even then, something ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ kept me away. ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
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#¶§£§:«~¨¨ when i finally got there, after some ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ heavy subconscious battle i must ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ assume, the place was surreal. an ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ esker, like a needle-thin rift out in ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ the lake, but ten meters high and ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ adorned in birch, willow, bracken, and ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ blueberries. ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
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#¶§£§:«~¨¨ walking atop that spine, i came to ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ notice the view to either side. there ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ should be shores, of course, but i ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ didn't recognize them. first off, they ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ were much too close, as the lake should ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ stretch for a hundred meters more on ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ both sides. but now i felt i could ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ almost reach out and touch them. and ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ then, when i realized which shores they ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ were, i had to stop. ¨~«:§£§¶##
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##¶§£§:«~¨ they were of the right lake. but this ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ lake is large, fractured, and ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ bipartite. like a pair of lungs carved ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ into the granite, and with no less than ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ five communities anchored at various ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ points. and so, studying these ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ impossibly close shores, i slowly ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ understood them as belonging many miles ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
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##¶§£§:«~¨ i examined the ridge, the treeline ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ above. was this what you saw opposite, ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ from those other shores? i couldn't ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ remember. ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
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#¶§£§:«~¨¨ carrying forward, on the very tip of ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ the esker, i found the ruins of some ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ old building. there were overgrown ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ marble staircases, stone floors beneath ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ the moss, and strange slabs inserted ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ into the slope like dams against the ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ ground itself. ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
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#¶§£§:«~¨¨ sitting there, i could see across the ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ narrowed lake my entire path to where i ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ sat: from the stairwell of my house, ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ through the old woods behind the tile ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ factory, the bridge over route ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ twenty three and then back under it, ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ through the fancy villas, over the ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ fields, and then that right turn at the ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ fork. ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
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#¶§£§:«~¨¨ and then the stairs up on the ridge. ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ thinking back, this was probably it. ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ hidden in a grove, there were stairs ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ much like the ones i currently sat on, ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ old and worn down, that lead you up ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ onto the esker. the point of entry. had ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ i insted opted to walk the path at its ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ foot, i'm sure my experience would've ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ been different indeed. ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
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#¶§£§:«~¨¨ on the lake, there were people in ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ boats. i wondered, could they even see ¨~«:§£§¶##
#¶§£§:«~¨¨ me? if i shouted, would they turn to ¨¨~«:§£§¶#
##¶§£§:«~¨ stare right through me? ¨~«:§£§¶##
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