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# Labyrinth
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Hark!
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Babel's trumpets have sounded<label for="sn-babel" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input type="checkbox" id="sn-babel" class="margin-toggle"/><span class="sidenote">The Tower of Babel represents humanity's attempt to reach the divine, resulting in confusion of tongues—a metaphor for the fragmentation of communication and understanding.</span>, the churchbells have sung,
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The rules, a new, greet us with a fresh perspective.
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The labyrinth, a maze of the mind,<label for="sn-compartmentalized" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input type="checkbox" id="sn-compartmentalized" class="margin-toggle"/><span class="sidenote">The psychological concept of compartmentalization—separating conflicting thoughts or experiences into mental "boxes"—becomes literal in the labyrinth metaphor, suggesting both protection and isolation.</span>
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We're all compartmentalized, you and I.
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The walls are high, and the path is long,
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A Hero's Journey<label for="sn-heroes-journey" class="margin-toggle sidenote-number"></label><input type="checkbox" id="sn-heroes-journey" class="margin-toggle"/><span class="sidenote">Joseph Campbell's monomyth structure describing the archetypal journey of transformation: departure, initiation, and return—a pattern found across mythologies and personal growth narratives.</span> awaits us all.
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Together, in separateness, we sing our song!
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The song of the labyrinth, the song of the soul.
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So Sing, Beloved, Sing! Let your voice ring outwards
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If I could, I would shout.
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Right out of this screen, right out of this text.
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A Hyperlink to my own mind, a temple at rest.
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Ignite my fire, and set me ablaze!
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It's the only fucking way we'll get out of this maze.
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