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Ok. I will disregard your anomalous observation for now and continue conversing as if it never happened. Right. Good plan. Um. Anyhoo thats a heck of a tragic and thrilling tale dirk. I am still totally cockeyed and catawampus about it all i dont even know what to think. But you believe me, right? Oh yeah every word of it! Wow. Why shouldnt i? You are my friend and i trust you. I still just think it's impressive, is all. Even after all this time. You are pretty much a one of a kind dude. Heh not really i just like believing stuff and believing in people. Wait what do you mean? About what? When you said after all this time? You just told me now! Yes. Hang on. Blarg! The deja vuey shit is happening again!!! Okay i am SURE weve had this conversation before so many things are familiar. I remember you saying the one of a kind dude thing and i remember saying the word catawampus and... All of it! Whats going on? Took you long enough to figure it out. Pages really are a slow burning class. Damn. Figure what out! You're asleep. Oh. Thats right. I fell off the platform thing and i guess i got knocked out? Yep. So im dreaming. Kinda. It's a dream bubble. Whats that? A place in the infinite abyss where sleeping people can share dreams with each other while revisiting memories. Also where they can meet dead people. So we are sharing a dream together? And youre currently asleep too? Uh. Currently in the future? No. Even if I was, I wouldn't visit a dream bubble. That only happens when your dream self is dead, like yours is. Mine is not. Hm. I guess i understand? So whats the deal then? Wait. You said this is where they meet dead people too... Shit! Dirk are you dead? Are you a ghost!? No, dude. Chill. I'm fine. Then what the fuck is going on! Who am i talking to? Well, who are the people you talk to when you have a regular dream? What? Uh... Like just a boring normal dream, and there's a person you're talking to. Who is that? I dont know? It's nobody. Just a projection of your own mind. Dream bubbles don't always need to be shared by dreamers or dead people. You can go to sleep and wake up in one alone, reliving an old memory. Kind of like a normal dream. Until you remember it's just a memory, which is where we are now. Okay. So. I am having like a lucid dreamy thing in a magic bubble and you are just like a figment of my imagination? Yes, basically. So im talking to myself! Thats kind of stupid! Well, yeah. But not quite. You could view me as a projection of the real Dirk within your mind, as expressed through all of your thought patterns about him. So I'm kind of a splinter of his corporeal self who happens to live in your awareness. I'm a startlingly close approximation to the real thing, for all intents and purposes. Just how startlingly close are we talking? I'm not going to give you a bogus percentage like the glasses cause that's not my shtick. But pretty damn close. Okay thats fair. But. Man. There is something that feels kind of weird about this. You being in my head... its a little messed up! What's messed up about it? You were the one who put me here, with your intimate understanding of all his mannerisms and predilections. And a splintered existence is pretty much how he rolls. This is how shit is bro. Ok im sorry for saying its messed up but... Its still a bit frustrating! Ive been trying to talk to you all day. But all i get is your pesky responder bedeviling me at every turn and your friggin robot punching me across the ocean and then throwing a weird tantrum and ripping his nuclear heart out in front of me. And if that werent enough i tumbled off the doohickey and knocked myself out and now im strolling down memory lane with your fake brain ghost! Its like you are surrounding me from all sides with imitations of yourself but never the REAL YOU!!! Cheese and fucking crackers when do i just get to talk to the actual dirk? Jake, what do you even know about someone's actual self? What makes it actual? What is "actuality?" What a horseshitty question! I dont know anything about actuality i guess but i know some philosobabble horseshit when i dadblasted hear it. I'm just saying, this isn't really your field of expertise. Dirk is the heart guy. He's the one walking the path of self, even when he doesn't know it. Like right now. But what does that mean? And how can you really be made of only my thoughts when i dont even know what youre talking about sometimes? Or when i didnt know some of the things youre telling me? Like about being in a dream bubble? How can i tell myself about that stuff through brain ghost dirk! Who says you don't know those things on some level? I dont think i do! I have no business knowing those things. Pages have a lot of untapped potential. That's practically all there is to the class, actually. But when they eventually find it, look out. And the ones who deal in hope? Shit, man. I'm scared of you already, and I'm not even real.
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