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In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

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"'Bout what?"<br />

"That I doubted your sanity."<br />

"Hmm.”<br />

“Nothing happened the other night! I was so drunk—she<br />

helped me to my room."<br />

“Whatever."<br />

“I know it's hard for you to see, but I've made a stupendous<br />

discovery here!"<br />

"<strong>In</strong> the cathedral?"<br />

"No, well you know I've been fooling around with these<br />

difference tones, that happen when two or more frequencies cause an<br />

intermodulation distortion upon entering the ear? Well, this extremely<br />

high harmonic stuff is being manipulated <strong>by</strong> my feedback loop, and—"<br />

"Something strange happened to me before," he confessed.<br />

"With Max?"<br />

"Before he came over, I dono, I was on the bed with my<br />

hangover, listening with your headphones, soft not loud. It was<br />

incredible. So strange. First I floated in all red, like behind the eyelids,<br />

then poof! All white. O, Dio, so beautiful. I dono how long I was there,<br />

but after, in a small moment, I saw... I felt her bend over and kiss my<br />

forehead, and when I open my eyes again she was not there and I could<br />

not move my limbs, like my body was not my own. That's why I had to<br />

have some, I asked him to bring it. Now he thinks I am crazy too."<br />

"What? Who did you see?"<br />

"The Virgin!"<br />

"Hmm, has this ever happened before?"<br />

"No!"<br />

"You sure Ula hasn't been slipping something in your drinks?"<br />

"Not the same at all!"<br />

"But you have been listening to this stuff a lot."<br />

"Yes, but, you know."<br />

"Right. Well, may be you should give it a rest until I sort it out."<br />

"I dono."<br />

"Either way, something's wreaking havoc on our brains."<br />

"Come sleep with me now." He put his arm around her and led<br />

her to his room.<br />

<strong>In</strong> the middle of the next week, Max cycled over with some<br />

more weed, some news and an envelope for Sandro from Maia. The<br />

two of them were on a plane that night for L.A.<br />

"Maia is impossible these days, she freaked out from this guy<br />

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