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The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other, because neither of them was currently a particularly engaging sight, and nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The narrator jokes that a many-headed man keeps the lights off so his heads needn't look at each other. Neither is a pleasant sight, a condition dating from his mistake of examining his own soul. The humour is dry, deadpan and self-lacerating.
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