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The Galgravolt, a fearsome beast created while (Name deleted) was had reverted to a maker after his splunders had been depleted and he was trapped in the 21st century, was a beast that when born believed it was an Otter. The galgravolt was a slave to preconceptions; which was its strength. As such, if it ever realized it was a Galgravolt, it would behave as people expected a galgravolt to act; it would act as the most fearsome animal ever created by the makers. naturally, it spent most of its time crushing clams on its belly in shallow water, the stereotypical otter’s behaviour. Sometimes they could be convinced that they were Matthieu Mconnaughoise, the french Matthew McConnaughey clone from 2854. He was exactly the same as the first Matthew, only he spoke french and ate yeast deposits he grew on his incarnate ethnicity. (in those days, a person’s ethnicity lived as a discreet organism, walking beside them in the body of a polar bear. And on that bear grew yeast all over itself to feed people. This was a result of the presupposition that ethnicity sustained a person, defining “where they came from”, if you can believe it, and a person became totally dependent on their ethnicity for survival. They were also dependent on Yamtalkers for survival, but we’ll deal with that later.) At this very moment, our friend from the hyper-future, Tyra Banks, was fleeing to the hospital to have his bullet wound treated. Would he make it before the Galgravolt devoured Toronto?

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run into an arts collective called the dream collective, whose art project is to allow only one person to sleep at a time, so only one can dream at a time, but they find taht even when they sleep, they dont’ dream, and can’t explain it. The answer is that one of them is actually hoarding the dreams of all of them, because if he gathers enough dreams, an unnamed shadowy figure will give him his own trumpet. That figure is of course the two of them, from the distant present.

also, the idea that due to declinging personal posessions, people evolved the ability to ascribe greater value to fewer things, so they didnt’ feel poor. A mutation produced a subgroup of humans that saw the real value of things only, based on its utility, and they quickly came to rule over the entire planet, living in luxury.

also, the idea of a placebo eductaion. Telling someone they’re smart, without making them smart, so they bluster their way into situations and commend respect. Those people are far more successful than people who know what they are doing.

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Meanwhile, back inside the dream inside the frown

It was barbecue season, and the season was high. Rampaging away from the Pharaohs, the mindless creatures that even now all around me limped towards some unknown central location, I began to sense that I too wanted to enjoy barbecue season. It was at its HEIGHT! It only lasts a short while, i instinctively believed, and had to be cherished. I looked out over the city, and I saw in the distance the distinctive red flag that was raised to indicate to everyone that it was a long weekend. A double! Long Weekend? Barbecue season? How could i resist.

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