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The god Dionysus famously asked King Midas: "what is your fondest wish, oh mighty one?" "Why of course, I want everything I ever touch to turn to GOLD!", he thundered. Now dozing drunkenly in his vaulted chamber of stained glass, manic shafts of hot pink light agitate his senses. He craves the cool, silky shade of his garden - its' swirling fragrant tendrils, moist fat roses and feathered trees. Sensing peril, the garden awakens. The king cannot open his door! He shatters his windows with gold bricks, he expands, explodes, and metamorphosizes into a colossal orbiting disc of 22 karat madness. He sees, as his eyes turn to golden dust, the sweet beckoning green of the grass, the subtle colours of the flowers.