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..,~:$$@@# I Fall Asleep In  The Wrong  Throat  And #@@$$:~,..
...,~:$$@@ Is Not So Much Dreaming  As Being Forced @@$$:~,...
..,~:$$@@#         To Imagine A Scenario...         #@@$$:~,..
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..,~:$$@@#            Big Halls, Arcades,           #@@$$:~,..
.,~:$$@@##         Filled With Characters.          ##@@$$:~,.
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...,~:$$@@ I Get  Instructions For Them, For What I @@$$:~,...
..,~:$$@@# Must Imagine Them  Doing Or Saying. They #@@$$:~,..
.,~:$$@@## Have  Some  Agency,  But  Not While  I'M ##@@$$:~,.
..,~:$$@@#   Looking. The Instructions Are Beamed   #@@$$:~,..
...,~:$$@@ Into  My Mind,  Spoken  From  A  God, Or @@$$:~,...
..,~:$$@@#              False Demiurge.             #@@$$:~,..
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..,~:$$@@# Sometimes I'M Too Slow And Fail  To Make #@@$$:~,..
...,~:$$@@ Them  Do  What   I'M  Instructed  Before @@$$:~,...
..,~:$$@@# Time'S Out, And Then They Get  Punished. #@@$$:~,..
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..,~:$$@@# One  Of Them Got  His  Vocabulary Shrunk #@@$$:~,..
...,~:$$@@ Down To  Only The Word He Failed  To Say @@$$:~,...
..,~:$$@@#     (Roofs? Rufus?), Many Were Just      #@@$$:~,..
.,~:$$@@##            Physically Maimed.            ##@@$$:~,.
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...,~:$$@@ It   All    Was   Very   Stressful   And @@$$:~,...
..,~:$$@@# Repulsive. It Felt Like A  Nightmare, Or #@@$$:~,..
.,~:$$@@##               Fever dream.               ##@@$$:~,.
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...,~:$$@@ I   Haven'T   Tried   To   Sleep   Since @@$$:~,...
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