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April 26, 2024 • 29 mins
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a watch as a man goes throughthe recognizing throughs of a nightmare. Was
trying to hold onto some semblance ofsemity, said your man is Bill's Simpson
as he lies in his dingy bedroomnear the docks. Never stops. Now

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it's coming from the room upstairs,coming down. This is the ceiling success
at the water too so to driveme mad. I can't stop it.
I can't stop it. I can't. You can't really upstairs, you can't
stop the non hearing voices. Andthis is how it starts with them and

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begins to stop you hear voices.Oh, I've gotta see since he happened
to the lights? Why lights?They can only come place like this in
the dark. To me, well, wait, we we really know each
pir I know you go upstairs?See what's there? God stairs? Wait,

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wait, the don't go way upI won't see. I'm great masked,
but you're wrong. Listen to thegirl close behind me. I went

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upstairs to the room about immediately therewas a man with a knife, woman
still fresh who was dead. HHello, hello police, Hello police police,

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h that had play? It started? Two? Uh police about trying
the police, police police? BillYou and she calling the police with there's

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there's been a murder. Couldn't yourmaster didn't? For why how could I
know? Because you murdered me?But I saw you were doing. Why
would I want to kill a stranger? Why? And yes, un listen
unless I listen, man, Igot to you that it matter here in

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the darkness in the farm. Thenthe fog lifts, it will never list
for us. Are you still goingto call the place? I may never
understand? What drives you to kill? Is I that you do? As?

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I know? You bill, mygod, that's your room, my
my room, And then back tothe room upstairs, change your suit of
clothes and carry him down to thestreet. And I recall, I'll help
you hide him from the world.But what I darn, Samson, Let

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me think for you? You preferme to linch. I know, oh,
I know. It's I'm afraid afraidto say myself a phrase she drank,

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and I couldn't see her say.I could only imagine it behind her
black veils, like I could seeher sinking, sinking for both of us.
And I could sense her presence too, as if there was an aching
nerve of connecting us well, well, well, a great sleep a cemetery.

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Yes, ting your arms behind meas I show the way I carried
him into the fog along a paththat ran between rows, of grapes.
Who was light in my arms?H it's almost real? Yes? Can

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you seek out the the out topof the match? Three outplay the confidence?
Yeah, first place to you ishis there's a name place of it,

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Ri, just my name, justtwitch put him the race a way.
It's a day scratched on the play. The day should say to night,
of course, which is good guyto night nurse. But the rest
drop the lad He's hidden from thewell. But for me I shall always

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see it. Oh Bill, Yes, I can feel you're trying to think
for yourself. Don't Three custis tomorrow? The name plates are Henry and Robert,

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and then it's tomorrow. Nights inthe neck cut? How will they
die? You will kill me?Why? To God? It is a
more nature to kill? But whyto more strangers I've never seen? You'll
do it for me? Ingratitude?Gratitude? That's right, aren't you great?

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You? You say you saw mein the room upstairs? But that
But if I don't believe you thatit met after what's being then what about
sir? Goodbye tomorrow? Where's itto beef outside the beef and clod nebra?

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How would I know you? I'llknow you. Good night, Bill,

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the tail lights of the red Eyesof the morning closing, with the
rising mists disappearing from sa the redEyes of Morning. I've been having like
that. None of it has happened. It was a game that the imagination
plays when the night begins to go. It was that's before I found my

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way home, allowed my way backto the room at the stairs closed.
The door was closed, with dustcurling from the action of the doorknob.
Said the room had been sealed upfor years. Your own priest Joe lived

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number I. I I know it. No, but I U yeah,
who lives? I mean lives inthis room? Everybody? He should have?
Nobody lives in there? Im tealready I could I have a look
inside. Sure, he's only anempty room, you'll see. But I

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heard some noises coming from it.I I couldn't sleep, my sybos.
I am huh, there's the roomsent you flo empty? It's the pretty

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she's a gun. The couch washere, and hand over here a leap,
hey you fairly shook, and seewhat fish? There was a slow
rock on the floor staying red andseeping through down and see the floorboards.
And I had a picture hung herea wolf. Hurry up the moon picture
by sergeant Lease, see where arethey? What are you? I mean

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to fish? Let me go?Excoose me me like that. I gotta
gol a priest. No, no, not Jef, please not no police
when I'm i I'm up. Wellthat something worked me in and frightened me.
Mine. I told you they're inthe wools and in the floor.
This is nice, and I knowthat's what it was. Now. I'm

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sorry I had lost my head.I forget that, please my heart,
thank you, thanks m downstairs inthe room below, in my room,

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they all became vivid again. Itsvivid and real as the blood stains on
the bad carts, the dried patchesof red rust on my pajama's and dressing
gown. I went to her thefollowing night. I tried not to,

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but the streets were one road leadingto her. You can. I couldn't
help myself. I know. II came to see your faces. If
you have a face, you thinkit's nice. I think sometimes you're in
a shadow, turn by my imagination, the shadows my sick mind. Do
look at me video, I ameyes, I am lucky, and what

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you see no dea. This timethere's a mask, the smiling mascular of
a goddess, the goddess of juand a costumes nuts. See. Yes,
why this masquer It's carnival nights insidethe cafe. We're going in.
Wear this mask and put this inyour pocket close to your fingers. Yes,

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and tender prize of most In thisflection, Henry is the name laid
on that second task. Yes,he's an expert. You'll return the dagger
before he missed. Henry inside,an honored guest. You know him by
his laughter, the loudest laughter youhear inside. I'm to do a murder

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for you, for you too,they're forgetting. I know you will be
I know what drives you like murderthat Henry laughing? Will what when you

(15:09):
return his prize? Do it onlywhen he's laughing. I did it like
that, I exactly like that.In the mausoleum, we put Henry beside

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the first were putting the rest,with his cheeks and eyes still wrinkled in
laughter. Clearly he looks happy asif he's laughing at me. Laughing with
a scheme with Henry, a schemethe war name, the way of his
army clothing, and then what wouldhe do? Make you the fool and

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the victim as he made you back? Are you making me you're bad for
yourself? No? No, buthow did you know I could do?
What's like this? I know youtell me about myself your sink. So
the day, yes, I hiduntil n you're a blow was a man.

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There's no memory of blild my memory. No, they're afraid of your
hands. What you said, you'sdescribe me as It's as if as if
it's me talking. It's me,it Sam telling you about myself. It's
as if the igony inside of mepod in its own voice. He tells
you, I understand you. Itold you. I understand what drives you

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back to the center of the fog. I knew you then again to find
your way home? What does itto be for the Soul's custom Tom Robert's
good? What released? I'll findyou go? She's always messy. Move

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(18:10):
will will little poor fear in athirty weeks a body coming through the fog.
Let's get back to the mystery ofthe more severe chair dog. Stay

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another name, another night, thefairy as it was, and the presses
the mind force a lot to buyit in the midst. I like the
wooden hole still for even a moment'ssanity. The questions, questions had rid
together as my line. That wasa piecis send me by the imaginations.

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Put it together the piece of thesays Coffin. The rabbit, only rabbit.
Now they're filled your interest countries.You're trying to think for yourself again.

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You'll meet rabbit in his home.Come, I'll show you where I'll
he'll know you, know me,He expects you. I told him to
prepare sir this, Why did youto wring every suffering from him? Are

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away at a townhouse with a stuckface, notting in the fog, and
I'm moted front door and music andmusic, dirt, A short, stumpy

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little man with eyes watching my approach. Go away, go home. I'm
oh. I was told you toexpect me like this. Go I was
told you were prepared to don no, prepared to live. See a pistol.

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Your hands won't be quick enough.Go ho, But then I must.
She's put a spell over you.That's Wheta's way and her man.
You've given her a name. Forgether. Look at the murders. Away
and hide. Can I hide ifyou go far? But you'll find me

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here? She does no more.I promise you no more. You're free
to walk the streets underlisted, freeto border dry, Go away and forget.
You want to escape and forget everything, don't you. I I don't

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know if I do. I don'tknow. I walk the streets. I'm
molested, hours and hours, withno one beside me, no voice.
It was as if she Rita hadevaporated into the midst on the sound of

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cars. I could see, asif my sight were suddenly back, as
if I'd waited from a walking sleep, as if I had snapped back to
the night. I ran from theroom upstairs, screaming, police, why
follow, Please come on their wakeup, wake up, wake Hey,

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you talked yourself out and then youfell asleep sleep, so I can flanders
what you here, oh time,sisters, early morning, I talked myself
out, she said, in theash. And you know about the last
three nights es. You're here onpaper? What the story? What an

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imagination? Imaginea sues and goddess inthe night in the room upstairs, the
two with three coffee. We didn'tfill the last coffee. She told him
to prepare. I know he wasready with a pistol to sue you away.
He ordered me to escape, toto forget it. But you didn't

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listen to it. No, Ihad to talk about it. I had
to tell the world to stop mefrom murder. I ask you did you
talked about it? But it's allwritten down here. Now let's going to
the main room. Someone I wantyou to meet. Got him under control,

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all right? Now? Takes anotherlook, Phil, See who it
is here? It's oh, myhead, it's it's he will told me
to go away to escape. Thisis doctor Harvey. It's the owner of
this sanitorium. You're William Sensel.We haven't bet before. I've been meaning
to visit you as I do allour patients stations here. You mean it

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easy, Bill. You were chargeof the homicidal attemptory your girlfriend as a
result of a psychiatrist report. Youwere given a suspended sentence as long as
you went into a sanatorium. Sheerown good. Bill, You've got an
instinct to kill. Yes, that'swhat I've done. He helped me.

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She grat as she made me kill. Now it's all in your mind.
Sam, you haven't killed anyone.You've been in this sanatorium. He wait
a me when you escaped. It'syou, sister, I've gone the lawn.
She's like, in my mind,it's not she Yes, she's hand
my more had the cold sat onher, looking like I'd imagine she'd look,

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a painted smile on her face,her lips a p thin for laughter,
all identifying what about patients? Let'swe have good Lisa, So what
should do? Did you say?What's that young lady too? You?

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Nurse? Sergeant Reader is my firstcousin. We were all left a considerable
amount of money by our uncle,justin the money to be divided equally in
the case of one of us dying. Rita knew of Sampson's homicidal impulses.
She played upon his imagination for Bill, what would they do to him?

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I thought it was all in hismind. Then she committed two murders,
and they're both mad. They'd putaway for the rest of their lives.
All they will have left is therea mad genation? Very well, well,

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poor Bill, fancy walking about youall that fog and missed, not
knowing who he was, or wherehe was going, or whom he was
going to kill next. It's enoughto make a man out of his mind.

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