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§††~:..... .....:~††§
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#§§†~:.... . . ....:~†§§#
###§@††~:. . the dream . .:~††@§###
###§@††~:. . of being swallowed . .:~††@§###
##§†~~:... . by the beast. . ...:~~†§##
###§@††~:. . . .:~††@§###
#§§††~:... #§.....................................§ ...:~††§§#
§§@††:::.. ..:::††@§§
###§@††~:. # inside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # .:~††@§###
§@††††::.. . an animal . as if . to be safe ..::††††@§
§†††~:.... ....:~†††§
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###§@††~:. ~:.#### ~:.###~:. ####~. .:~††@§###
###§@††~:. the dream of resting inside another .:~††@§###
##§@††:::. animal. thats how it starts, .:::††@§##
§†††~..... ~:. with the dream, .:~ .....~†††§
§§†~...... ~:.####~:.###~:.####~. ......~†§§
#§@†~:.... but this time i was curious of where it ....:~†@§#
###§@††~:. was going, .:~††@§###
#§††††~... #†† ~~~~~~~~~~ ††# ...~††††§#
#§§††~:::. †† ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ †† .:::~††§§#
#§@†~::... ...::~†@§#
##§††††~:. the first gate is the lips .:~††††§##
§@†††:.... ....:†††@§
###§@††~:. . . to get at the throat. . .:~††@§###
§§@†~..... .....~†@§§
###§@††~:. to be falling into the water, the .:~††@§###
§§@@†~::.. ocean, the void, but it must be done in ..::~†@@§§
##§§@††~:. the right way - in a very specific way. .:~††@§§##
###§@††~:. .:~††@§###
##§@@††~:. †:::~~~~~~~~~~~††††:::::::†:~~~~:::::†: .:~††@@§##
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###§@††~:. ::::†:~~:††:†††††††††† .:~††@§###
###§@††~:. ††††††††††††††††††††† ††††††††††††† .:~††@§###
#§§†~~.... it's not a bad feeling, at first. it's ....~~†§§#
#@@†::.... slow... graceful... but then it gets ....::†@@#
#§†~:..... too much and you faint. .....:~†§#
#§@†††:... †#::†~::::~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~††††††† ...:†††@§#
###§@††~:. ††††††††††††† (you will feel very close .:~††@§###
###§@††~:. to nature) .:~††@§###
§†~~...... †#::†~::::~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~††††††† ......~~†§
#@@@†††~:. ††††††††††††† (you will feel very close .:~†††@@@#
§†††:..... to the beast that is everything) .....:†††§
###§@††~:. †#::†~::::~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~††††††† .:~††@§###
####§@†~:. ††††††††††††† (only through its help) .:~†@§####
#@†::..... †#::†~::::~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~†† (very .....::†@#
###§@††~:. hard to get here without the aid of the .:~††@§###
##§§@††~:. beast) ††† (state where the human is .:~††@§§##
§@†††~::.. submerged in the animal) ††† †† ..::~†††@§
###§@††~:. (becoming the animal) ††† (forget .:~††@§###
§§††:..... everything else) ††† †† (my soul is the .....:††§§
#@†:...... beast's soul) ††† (a sludgy sense of ......:†@#
###§@††~:. satisfaction. it's good) ††† (it's .:~††@§###
§@†:...... good) ††† †† (breathing heavily) ††† ......:†@§
###§@††~:. ††† †† (the two souls will move .:~††@§###
###§@††~:. together) ††† (merge and dissolve) ††† .:~††@§###
#§§@†††~:. (collective body) ††† (rearranged and .:~†††@§§#
###§@††~:. reordered) ††† (the individual is not .:~††@§###
###§@††~:. so important) .:~††@§###
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