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main floor. He heard them settling into their seats. The
murmur of their conversation climbed up the moorish lat-
tice stenciled on the walls. Their voices gathered to a vast
hum under the domed ceiling where violet light hidden
indirectly behind the lip of the lower circumference of the
dome mixed their human voices into an indistinguishable
hum. He fixed his eyes on the hypnotic purple light that
grew iridescent as the other house lights dimmed. The
sharp light from the projection booth cut over his head,
but the movie that night held no interest. He did not
even take his eyes off the violet dome to look down at the
screen as the violet and purple dome melted to lavender.
Some sense in his body told him he was about to defy
gravity.
Only the crick in his neck and the pressure from the
inner-spring cushion under his back seemed to hold him
in his seat.
He wrapped his arms through the arms of the seat.
Staring up at the soft lavender light, he lost time
and direction.
A moment of panic swept through him followed by
ineffable pleasure.
He imagined himself falling up, up, up into the pool of
violet light, floating unnoticed above the moviegoers, lazy
and dreamy, until the intimate unseen hand, inflating
and then letting go the neck of a balloon, reddened the
violet, shocking the audience who craned their necks and
pointed to see him ricocheting insanely off the ceiling and
walls, growing smaller and smaller until he disappeared.
He had never been chloroformed but he felt it was
much like this.
The unseen hand lifted, and a dark mass next to

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