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###.....## I Get Instructions For Them, For  What I ..........
#.##....#. Must Imagine Them  Doing Or Saying. They ..........
..###..... Have  Some  Agency, But  Not  While  I'M #.........
..#.##....   Looking. The Instructions Are Beamed   .#........
....###... Into  My  Mind,  Spoken  From A God,  Or ..#.......
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......#.## Sometimes I'M Too Slow And Fail To  Make ..#..#....
........## Them  Do   What  I'M  Instructed  Before #..#..#...
........#. Time'S  Out, And Then They Get Punished. ##..#..#..
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.......... One Of  Them Got  His  Vocabulary Shrunk #.##..#..#
#......... Down To  Only The Word He Failed  To Say ..###..#..
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..#..#.... Repulsive. It Felt Like A  Nightmare, Or ...#..#.##
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