1. The son was in the house.
Q: HOW MANY CURTAINS DID THE HOUSE HAVE?
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Q: DID THE HOUSE WANT THE SON IN IT?
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Q: WAS THE SON IN THE HOUSE?
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2. The son slept for several months—though in this state, via several internal forces i.e. wanting i.e. loss—time refracted through the son’s body and therefore within the house it passed as only seven hours.
Q: IF SOMEONE WERE STANDING NEAR OR AT OR IN THE SON’S BODY, OTHER OUTSIDE FORCES NOTWITHSTANDING, HOW MANY TOTAL MONTHS OR HOURS WOULD THAT PERSON AGE?
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Q: HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE NEW FLESH TO WRINKLE?
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Q: I FEEL VERY OLD AND TIRED.
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3. One year earlier the son had discovered a small panel in the floor under his bed—a panel that, when opened, revealed a narrow passage down which the son could reach his hand. The son reached and reached and felt something down there nudge his knuckles. When the son removed his hand he found a short brass penny nail had been stuck into the loose skin between his thumb and pointer finger. The son took the nail out and looked at it and touched it to his tongue. The son swallowed the penny nail.
Q: IS THE SON STUPID?
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Q: HOW ELSE COULD THE NAIL HAVE BEEN USED?
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Q: HOW MUCH DID THE SON BLEED?
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4. In the son’s sleep, the son was sleeping. In the sleeping sleep, the son had a dream. In the dream the son knew as given that the son would never die.
Q: HOW MANY OTHER SONS WERE IN THIS DREAM? SONS THE SON COULD NOT SEE. SONS HIDING IN THE SLEEP WALLS. WHO ELSE’S SONS?
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Q: IS THAT TRUE? WOULD HE NOT EVER DIE?
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Q: WHY COULD NOT THE SON JUST SLEEP AND SLEEP?
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