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While we wonder what Jonah was dreaming during those three nights in the test bed of the beast’s belly, Elias dreams of Leviathan glazed in a golden hue: not a Freudian glitch but a character trait. Inserting an archival image lets its flair release us from anxiety: if something is already found in an image, there’s no stress in inventing it from scratch. And as the Midas touch brings skin asphyxiation more often than abundance, we allow this kind of gold to establish its own economy.