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.~-:*$§### ########§$*:-~. geometry .~-:*$§######## ###§$*:-~.
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....~~:$§# #       the name is a little mis-      # #§$:~~....
.~-:*$§### -  giving, because of course there is  - ###§$*:-~.
.~-:*$§### no  real geometry in the  caves. you may ###§$*:-~.
.~-:*$$§§# feel as if you are  venturing  into some #§§$$*:-~.
.~-:*$§### vast  structure,  but  you are  in  fact ###§$*:-~.
.....~--*§ leaving any such  thing at the entrance. §*--~.....
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.~-:*$§###     leaving physical tethers behind,     ###§$*:-~.
.~-:*$§###  submitting to an inescapable darkness,  ###§$*:-~.
...~::$$$§ the  world around  you becomes more of a §$$$::~...
....~::$§# manifestation  of   your   mind,   or  a #§$::~....
.~-:*$§### collective  mind,  with  a  shape  and a ###§$*:-~.
.~-:*$§###          direction and a taste.          ###§$*:-~.
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....-::*$#  inescapeable darkness, because if you   #$*::-....
.~-:*$§### bring  a   candle  or  mount  electrical ###§$*:-~.
.~-:*$§§## lights,  the   walls   only  serves   as ##§§$*:-~.
.~-:*$§### markers  to   where   the  tiny  spatial ###§$*:-~.
...---*§§# existence ends  and the darkness beneath #§§*---...
.~-:*$§###                it begins.                ###§$*:-~.
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.~-:*$§### like an  inverted  mandelbrot,  the real ###§$*:-~.
.~-:***$## cave is  actually not the  pockets,  but ##$***:-~.
.~-:*$§### the  black around  them.  keep  that  in ###§$*:-~.
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.~-:*$§### the  moisture that  permeates  any  cave ###§$*:-~.
.~-:*$§### worth  it's name... it's  the water  the ###§$*:-~.
.~-:*$§### world rose  from.  it's  the  water  you ###§$*:-~.
...~--:*$#         drown in, in your dreams.        #$*:--~...
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....~::$§§ the only sounds  in  the  cave are those §§$::~....
.~~~~-:$$§ that  you  make yourselves. they may  be §$$:-~~~~.
.~-:*$§### distorted  by  the  stone structure, and ###§$*:-~.
.~-:*$§### amplified by  your mind.  try not to  be ###§$*:-~.
.....~:*§# alarmed,  try to  remember  the  persons #§*:~.....
...~--*$$# and  objects around  you,  and  you  can #$$*--~...
....~:***§ discern   a   mirage   from   a  friend. §***:~....
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