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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     ##£$$\-~..
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...~-\$$£# i  wake up every morning at six am. it's #£$$\-~...
..~-\$$£## 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 ##£$$\-~..
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.~-\$$£### in this cottage there's  a  lot of radio ###£$$\-~.
..~-\$$£##   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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