("Writing in your sleep, too!" cry the Twins.)
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Line 95 Vulgarized:
Interrupting Cherrycoke's narrative, barely one paragraph in, the monstrous Twins shout, in unison, "Writing in your sleep, too!"
Subtext:
The Twins are making a callback to how Cherrycoke was falling asleep while telling his story last time they gathered (which is why they brought him coffee). They're critics allowed to critique the story in real time, asking, in their weird and unsettling way, "How much can we rely on the truth of your stories when you not only tell them while falling asleep but you've written them down the same way?! Are your 'personal histories' simply half dream journals as well?!" And judging by the kinds of things that Cherrycoke will profess happened to them all, it's not a bad question from the twins.
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