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.:~/^&#### #       the name is a little mis-      # ####&^/~:.
....:~~^## ~  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 #&&/~.....
......:/^# collective mind,  with  a  shape  and  a #^/:......
.:~/^&####          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 ##&^^^/~:.
.....:/^^# 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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.:~/^&#### the  moisture  that  permeates  any cave ####&^/~:.
.:~/^&#### 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 ####&^/~:.
......~^## amplified by your mind.  try  not to  be ##^~......
.:~/^&#### alarmed,  try  to  remember the  persons ####&^/~:.
....:~~^^# and  objects  around  you,  and you  can #^^~~:....
.:~/^&#### discern   a   mirage   from  a   friend. ####&^/~:.
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