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,,,^«††£##             £ DREAM PALACE £             ##£††«^,,,
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,,,,^«††£# 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))                 ####£††«^,
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,,,,,^«††£ 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.                  ##£††«^,,,
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,,,^«††£## 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.             £††«^,,,,,
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,^«††£#### 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.      ####£††«^,
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,,,,,^«††£ 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. ###£††«^,,
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,,,,^«††£# 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. #£††«^,,,,
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