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shrieked at image #3. you nailed this tonally. tremendous work

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Thanks so much Ivan, I hope you didn't have any untoward discharges from the shock.

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egg laid

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Cherish it, it'll call you daddy someday and care for you in your decrepitude

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ive commented elsewhere but yes...so good it's worthy of a double yolker of praise. keep up the weird!

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Thanks a lot Nick, but my next one will be going much much darker, in the bleakest spirit of Halloween (not the fun creep, the other) so you might want to give that one a miss. In many ways it will be a very dark version of this same story.

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This is so fucking weird, haha. I absolutely love it. 👏

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Weird, you say? From a man who writes what you do, I'll take that as agreat compliment. Dreaming of the day of apotheosis when we all get so strange that nobody but us can understand what's happening... then we know we'll have transcended

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It was absolutely meant as a compliment. I hope your dream comes true. Until then, I'll do my part in pushing us in that direction. 🫠

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What the fuck? I mean, what the fucking fuck? That was amazing.

Just a note: you can't blame our proto-protagonist for not wanting to exist. For being nobody is how you are somebody. And being somebody just makes you a nobody. Ya dig?

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PS I imagine you spotted the snippet from The Doors, being an attentive little hermeneuticist.

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As ever, BV, you rock my world with your appreciation. Your metaphysical glosses have been duly noted and filed under Ontological Certitudes We Have Found

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