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The devil:\
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Musty. Musty musty musty. So old. It's held together with sackcloth.
It's hard to describe but, the colours your eyes see are
one-dimensional. That doesn't mean black and white, dark and light.\
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I don't intend to confuse but you don't really use your eyes.\
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It doesn't stand out. If you saw it, you wouldn't be focusing on it,
you'd be taking in everything, and your sense of depth perception grinds
to a halt - bricks, trees, sky, the now refrigerated air razing your
windpipes - and it'd talk to you.\
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To you. *TO* you.\
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It won't reach out and grab you, and you're not going to be convinced to
reach out and grab IT, I mean if you're really that indifferent and
alert when the time could come, sure, why not - in fact, knock yourself
right out.\
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He remembered that it was behind Pearson Street. Pavement or something.
He said something like gravel and sand and when it 'left' he didn't like
the way the sand and the pavement was.\
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Excuse me: Carpet, sand and pavement.\
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I think the nicest it could appear then wasn't really nice enough. I
mean it wasn't being eaten out by maggots but it must've forgotten what
the right thing to become.\
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Don't laugh. Look, just don't please. I want to say it, but I don't want
to be put off - I don't want to be pushy but - I don't mean immaturity
or anything.\
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This skeleton with no proportion, kind of slowly disintegrating into the
air - "diffusing" was what he said - it's 'robe' with it. It had a hat.