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[ituncleared]

[The recording begins with a very audible exhale. Someone's smoking again.]

I didn't even notice until a while ago. [Lou pauses, staring at his cigarette behind the PORTAL.] I have no idea how many packs of cigarettes I've gone through. They just keep showing up.

Everything I want just keeps showing up.

[And now he laughs, quietly, because of

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[consultmybooks]

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean that you can't die.

[ituncleared]

[He breathes out something short of a laugh. Dryly:]

You people talk about death too much.

[consultmybooks]

You aren't helping us talk about it any less.

[ituncleared]

[He can see why, but he's still going to ask,]

How's that?

[Voice]

[xfire_birdx]

Dream city or not, pretty sure lung cancer is still a pretty high possibility.

[ituncleared]

[Sorry, he feels especially cynical today.]

That doesn't even work in real life.

[xfire_birdx]

What doesn't, the lung cancer or you listening to logic?

[ituncleared]

I was going to just say 'lung cancer', but now I'm leaning towards both options.

[ironicinitials]

You need sleep.

[ituncleared]

[OH, ROB.]

Gotta love the irony.

[ironicinitials]

Irony is the opposite of expected. Why wouldn't you be expected to sleep?

[ituncleared]

Having to sleep in your dream? Sounds pretty ironic to me.

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[mortestmamere]

[She sounds equal parts distracted and insufferably chirpy,]

You shouldn't smoke so much.

[ituncleared]

You shouldn't horrify little children.

[mortestmamere]

Now that has no empirical evidence whatsoever. Perhaps if we horrified them a bit more often they wouldn't grow up to be such tedious little sheep, hmm? A little trauma does the mind some good.

[ituncleared]

[He snorts.]

No, it really doesn't.