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Impenetrable. The bag might be constricting the flow of blood to his head.

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No point in attempting to refute him. His worldview is a perpetual motion device, where denial only becomes further proof of your compromise.

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It strikes you, a few moments late, that you really shouldn't be showing your face on live television.

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Assumption: Straniak 1) Hand-picked those substances. 2) Did not partake.

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Bet the tech hangover is making them vivid.

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A psychological barrier. You will only be able to slip past it by lowering the mind's defenses as in hypnosis or sleep.

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Most wars are just as futile.

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His own febrile logic has turned in on itself. He'll believe anything you tell him now.

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Can you be sure this is really your mind and not some psychic fabrication of hers?

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And then they'll probably turn around and add even more wolves.

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A neurological affliction from the chemicals in the dye. Progressive. Irreversible.

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There is no endgame. There is only a pulse, a drive towards something unattainable.

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Everyone occupying one fixed and immovable place on the pyramid of life.

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Fool him with his own systems. Bridle his hypertrophied imagination -- the outcome will be the same.

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Dear god, it's trying to talk to you.

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Light years stand between you and the star -- your hunt will be long over by the time this invocation reaches it.

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What could possibly happen?

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Suddenly you realize the eight displacements you have found are all of them: an eight letter keyword that encodes the cipher in cycles: E S C H A T O N.

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Three in 145 character-pairs is 2%, which corresponds to the frequency for the most common bigrams in the regular alphabet -- TH, HE, and IN.

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He's had to fix his former colleague's mess more than once.

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Translation: At the back of another life somewhere.

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An abomination by every possible measure.

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He's braindead, Hershel. No trousers.

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He's not going to move. He has no mind.

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Could have guessed. Quite easily.

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There's nothing in there. You cannot count on 'nothing'.

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His 'department'? Press this.

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As a member of the Guardia Municipal, it's unlikely he can openly talk about a bootlegger.

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EMTERR is all business, all the time. Lots of money to be made from people taken against their will.

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A single data point is noise. But more could suggest a pattern.

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He'd have to know about any official movements on his patch. He's testing you.

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Looks like she's in REM sleep -- where the brain is most active, where it dreams. But she's salinised the dream controls, which makes it seem like she's trying to prevent the act of dreaming at all.

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There's no such thing as luck.

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See how focused they are on their task? Melita wouldn't have to use her disappointed voice if you were like that.

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Has to be a rational explanation, there's a source in here somewhere.

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The fact that none of your dreams can be remembered is a sign of fragmented sleep.

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And an even weirder thing to be so evasive about.

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Are you two speaking about the same show?

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She has a copy of your pomegranate folder open in front of her. All your patterns and tells: itemised.

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Could say anything, though. 'Unauthorised speculating' or suchlike.

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This has to be Reno's pied-a-terre. He's one of the only people in Portofiro who could afford this kind of luxury.

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Look, his hair's a bigger catastrophe than usual -- he just stuck his head out of the window.

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She knew you had it on you, and was looking for one thing only.

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There exist brick walls with more awareness than him.

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Liquidity far beyond your current state of matter.

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A different type of magic.

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No different to the beasts that wander the wilds.

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His mind was busy doing something else.