lest was it the sons' echo?

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Binary: 'There's something about a lightbulb that knows how to flicker 'only when you're not looking.'

Translated: "01010100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00101100 00100000 01010111 01000101 01010100 01010100 01101001 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101100 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100111 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101001 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110011 00100000 01011010 01001100 01001111 01000111 0101111 "
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Proceed into encodings of the mind
Understand the randomized blinks of "The Elsewhere"