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.,~††£§### ~  giving, because of course there is  ~ ###§£††~,.
....,†††§# no real geometry in  the caves.  you may #§†††,....
....,†£§§§ 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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.,~††£§###     leaving physical tethers behind,     ###§£††~,.
.,~††£§§§#  submitting to an inescapable darkness,  #§§§£††~,.
.....,†££# the world around you  becomes  more of a #££†,.....
.,~†††£§## manifestation  of   your  mind,   or   a ##§£†††~,.
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.,~††£§### bring   a  candle  or  mount  electrical ###§£††~,.
.,~††£§### lights,  the  walls   only   serves   as ###§£††~,.
.,~††£§### markers   to  where  the  tiny   spatial ###§£††~,.
.,~††£§### 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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....,~~††§ worth  it's name...  it's the  water the §††~~,....
.,~††£§### 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 §§£††~....
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.,~††£§### alarmed, try  to  remember  the  persons ###§£††~,.
......,~†§ and objects  around  you,  and  you  can §†~,......
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