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E The efficiency crown is a diadem of laser beams which you may safely admire from behind welder's goggles, but if you remove them, the lights will penetrate your pupils, searing their image onto the delicate retinal tissue, so that for the rest of your days, you will behold everything as though from behind a veil of dry white light that coldly burns away all the world's impurities, making everything appear textureless and two-dimensional. Your fingertips will assure you that the ridged scar on the back of your beloved's hand is still there, but your eyes won't be able to perceive it. Thus, your senses will remain at war with one another until finally you weary of the conflict, and resolve to either stop looking or stop touching. Sadly, most people choose the latter.

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