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A massive ballroom with Howlin' Wolf, John Coltrane, and Robert Johnson barely making their way through an acid trip as they smoke cigarettes in the centre. The walls are lined with fractal mirrors that seem to multiply the world about you. When you peer into one of the mirrors, you realize that these aren't mirrors, but looking-glasses into another world. One mirror shows a dark world full of brooding folk who don't look each other in the eye, while the mirror opposite that one reveals a terrifying world of shit-eating grins, men standing by other men without an ego flying, and the like. In another, Jesus Christ is peering back at you as he twirls around in his pretty dress. One mirror shows homeless men, teetering at the edge of a river and another stuck in a well. One of the men at the river laments to each woman who passes by about his long lost daughter. A lot of the other mirrors are just strange alien figures having sex. You get tired of Howlin' Wolf trying to describe what he's seeing while Coltrane and Johnson break their instruments, and you decide to leave. A month later, you come by again with the same result. Another night, after indulging in smoke and drink, you return and it quickly becomes your favourite place. You live there now, babbling back at Howlin' Wolf and scaring passersby.
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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
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