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.:~/^$&&&& @@      the art of c:nnecting            &&&&$^/~:.
.:~/^$&@@#        .    with the old mind            #@@&$^/~:.
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.:~/^$&@@#             my mind is being skewed. mi  #@@&$^/~:.
.:~/^$&@@#  skeleton is stringy and old and alien   #@@&$^/~:.
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.....~~~^&             the sunset of the eternal    &^~~~.....
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.:~/^$&@@#         persistently against my emulsion #@@&$^/~:.
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...~///$&&    it's ungraspable to me, what other    &&$///~...
...:://$&&   humans are doing and abstracting,      &&$//::...
.:~/^$&@@#  and above all else, what time they use? #@@&$^/~:.
....~/$&&@ how long a time has passed, for them?    @&&$/~....
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.:~/^$&@@#   continuously i'm crowding through      #@@&$^/~:.
.:~/^$@@## . the fourth wall  :outwards is what   . ##@@$^/~:.
..::~///^& .. i'm thinking but it's wrong.. a new   &^///~::..
.:~////$&& . . narrator is introduced, occasionally &&$////~:.
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