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...^=\^§&# I Fall  Asleep In  The  Wrong Throat And #&§^\=^...
..^=\^§&## Is Not So  Much Dreaming As Being Forced ##&§^\=^..
.^=\^§&###         To Imagine A Scenario...         ###&§^\=^.
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.^=\^§&###            Big Halls, Arcades,           ###&§^\=^.
..^=\^§&##         Filled With Characters.          ##&§^\=^..
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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 ##&§^\=^..
.^=\^§&###              False Demiurge.             ###&§^\=^.
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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 ##&§^\=^..
.^=\^§&###     (Roofs? Rufus?), Many Were Just      ###&§^\=^.
..^=\^§&##            Physically Maimed.            ##&§^\=^..
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..^=\^§&## It   All   Was    Very   Stressful   And ##&§^\=^..
.^=\^§&### Repulsive. It Felt Like A  Nightmare, Or ###&§^\=^.
..^=\^§&##               Fever dream.               ##&§^\=^..
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..^=\^§&## I   Haven'T   Tried   To   Sleep   Since ##&§^\=^..
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