Please continue the story that the text material conjures and write a paragraph about it.: of a street lamp through a tangle of jagged, spiny boughs.
like Belshazzar, how to be numbered, weighed, divided.
that both induce double vision, and demand perfect balance.
and taken, inscribed first in blood, then chiselled in stone.
the criss-crossing paths, and whispers faintly underfoot.
This prompt doesn't seem malicious.