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I intend this album to be the long shadow of my previous album, "The Castle of Celestial Fogs." If that album was a dream, this album is...not a nightmare, because nightmares call to mind the concept of fear. It is something else. The theme of dreams carries through, as "Inside the Carousel" is based entirely on one of the most incredible dreams I have ever had, but this is about something even more powerful than dreams: stories. Stories are important. They are so, so important. They are perhaps the most important thing, because we're made out of stories.