,,~††%&@## ##@&%††~,,
,,~††††%%& &%%††††~,,
,,~††%%&&@ @&&%%††~,,
,,~††%&@## ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## % DREAM PALACE % ##@&%††~,,
,,,~~††%@# , ----- ------ , #@%††~~,,,
,,~††%&### % ..... ...... % ###&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## † ..... ...... † ##@&%††~,,
,,,,~~††&@ , ..... ...... , @&††~~,,,,
,,~††%&@## , ..... ...... , ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## , ..... ...... , ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## ##@&%††~,,
,,~††††%&# #&%††††~,,
,,~†%&@### NOT ACTUALLY A PALACE. A COTTAGE IN THE ###@&%†~,,
,,~†%&@### WOODS (TEMPERATE CLIMATE, RAINS EVERY ###@&%†~,,
,,,,~~††%& OTHER DAY, SPRINGS AND STREAMS AND &%††~~,,,,
,,,,,,~†&# MYSTERIOUS IRON AND STONE ARTIFACTS, #&†~,,,,,,
,,~††%&@## BIRDLAND-ISH ETERNAL SPRING (LATE ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%%%@@ SPRING)) @@%%%††~,,
,,,,,~††%& &%††~,,,,,
,,,,,~†%@# ~ #@%†~,,,,,
,,,,,~††&# #&††~,,,,,
,,,,,~†&&@ I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING AT SIX AM. IT'S @&&†~,,,,,
,,~††%&@## DARK, AND THE STARS ARE OUT, BUT THE ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&&&# SUN IS ABOUT TO RISE. ITS A LONG DAY, #&&&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## BEFORE IT FADES TO NIGHT AGAIN, AND ##@&%††~,,
,,,,†††%&# THEN IT STAYS SO UNTIL I FALL ASLEEP. #&%†††,,,,
,,~††%&@## IT DOESN'T RISE UNLESS I'VE HAD MY ##@&%††~,,
,,~††&@### DREAMS. ###@&††~,,
,,,,,,††&# #&††,,,,,,
,,~††%&@## † ##@&%††~,,
,,,,†††%&& &&%†††,,,,
,,,,,,~†%@ IN THIS COTTAGE THERE'S A LOT OF RADIO @%†~,,,,,,
,,~††††%%@ EQUIPMENT, SOUND STUFF, SYNTHS, TAPE @%%††††~,,
,,~††%&@## PLAYERS. PEN AND PAPER, BOOKS, CAMERAS, ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&### MIRRORS, PRISMS, AND VARIOUS THINGS TO ###&%††~,,
,,,,~†%%&& DO ART WITH. THE FRIDGE IS FILLED WITH &&%%†~,,,,
,~††%&@### DIFFERET FOODS, ALL OF THEM INTRIGUING, ###@&%††~,
,,~††%&@@@ SLIGHTLY WEIRD. @@@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## & ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## ##@&%††~,,
,,,,,~††&& I HAVE FRIENDS - THERE'S A CAT, AND A &&††~,,,,,
,,~†††%&&@ DOG (WHO IS RIDICOLOUSLY LARGE AND @&&%†††~,,
,,~††%&@## WANTS TO BE THE BIG SPOON). I LISTEN TO ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@@@ THE SHORTWAVE RADIO, AND TRANSMIT A BIT @@@&%††~,,
,,~†%&@### MYSELF, SONGS AND POETRY, AND FOUND ###@&%†~,,
,,~††††%%@ SOUNDS FROM THE FOREST. THE OTHERS TELL @%%††††~,,
,,~††%&@## OF THEIR LIVES, PLAY THE GUITAR FOR ME, ##@&%††~,,
,,,,~††††& AND TELL TALES OF THE OLD WORLD. I &††††~,,,,
,,~††%&@## CONSIDER THEM FRIENDS AS WELL. ##@&%††~,,
,,,~~†%&@# #@&%†~~,,,
,,,~†††††& @ &†††††~,,,
,,,,~††%@@ @@%††~,,,,
,,~††%&&&& MOST IMPORTANTLY, THERE'S A TWO SQUARE &&&&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## METER AREA ON THE FLOOR WHERE I CAN ##@&%††~,,
,,,~~~~††& "SAVE" THINGS. WHATEVER I PUT IN HERE &††~~~~,,,
,,,,†††%%@ WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THE NIGHTLY @%%†††,,,,
,,~††%&@## RESET. EVERYTHING ELSE, HOWEVER, IS ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## COMPLETELY RESET OVERNIGHT: SYNTH ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## PATCHES REMOVED, FOOD UNEATEN, WOUNDS ##@&%††~,,
,~††%&@### HEALED, AND WHEREVER AND WHENEVER I'D ###@&%††~,
,,~††%&@## FALL ASLEEP I'D ALWAYS WAKE UP FULLY ##@&%††~,,
,,,,,~~††& RESTED IN MY BED. SOMETIMES THERE'S &††~~,,,,,
,,,,,††%&& ACCIDENTS WHERE I LOSE STUFF BY &&%††,,,,,
,,~††%%&@# FORGETTING TO PUT THEM IN THE SQUARE. #@&%%††~,,
,,,,~~†%%& &%%†~~,,,,
,,~††%&@## , ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## ##@&%††~,,
,,,,,††††& AT NIGHT, I HAVE DEMI-LUCID DREAMS &††††,,,,,
,,,,,~~††& WHERE THE SPIRITS OF THE FOREST AROUND &††~~,,,,,
,,,,,,~†%@ THE COTTAGE TRIES TO COMMUNICATE. HERE, @%†~,,,,,,
,,,,,,††%@ IT'S NOT ENDLESS BUT CONNECTED TO A @%††,,,,,,
,,,,~†%&&# LARGE SPRAWLING CITY, WHERE MY RADIO #&&%†~,,,,
,,~††%&@## FRIENDS LIVE. WE GO EXPLORING TOGETHER ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## - THINGS ARE DEEP AND DARK - BUT UNLIKE ##@&%††~,,
,,,,,,,~†& ME, THEY NEVER REMEMBER DURING THE DAY. &†~,,,,,,,
,,~††%&@## THIS IS A MYSTERY WE OFTEN DISCUSS. ##@&%††~,,
,,,,†††%%& &%%†††,,,,
,,~††%&@## ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@@@ @@@&%††~,,
,,,,,††%@# #@%††,,,,,
,,~††%&@## ##@&%††~,,
,,~††%&@## ##@&%††~,,