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....==^$@@              .lizardry                   @@$^==....
.~==^$&@@# =           @ @@ @@@  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ #@@&$^==~.
....==$$$@ @@      the art of c~nnecting            @$$$==....
.....~=^$&        .    with the old mind            &$^=~.....
.~==^$&@@@                                          @@@&$^==~.
.~==^$$$&@             my mind is being skewed. mi  @&$$$^==~.
.~==^$@@##  skeleton is stringy and old and alien   ##@@$^==~.
.~==^$&@##             the situation is literally   ##@&$^==~.
.~==^$&@## pressed out through my eyes, it's        ##@&$^==~.
.~==^&@@## echoing like                             ##@@&^==~.
.~==^$&@@#             the sunset of the eternal    #@@&$^==~.
.~==^$&@@# ocean                                    #@@&$^==~.
.~==^$&@@#         persistently against my emulsion #@@&$^==~.
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......==^&    it's ungraspable to me, what other    &^==......
...~==^$@@   humans are doing and abstracting,      @@$^==~...
......==^&  and above all else, what time they use? &^==......
.~==^$&@@# how long a time has passed, for them?    #@@&$^==~.
.~==^$&@@#                                     .    #@@&$^==~.
.~==^$&@@#  . ... .  ................   @@@@@@@     #@@&$^==~.
.~==^$&@@@   continuously i'm crowding through      @@@&$^==~.
.~===^$$&& . the fourth wall  ~outwards is what   . &&$$^===~.
.~==^$&@@# .. i'm thinking but it's wrong.. a new   #@@&$^==~.
..~~==^^$& . . narrator is introduced, occasionally &$^^==~~..
.~==^^$&&& ~  ~ aware of the previous one, deeper . &&&$^^==~.
...~~=$$&@ ~   ~ down in the dragons throat.        @&$$=~~...
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