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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 .,«††*@@##
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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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