Considering 'Shall I tell you what it would be like for your soul to live in the muck of a swamp in a mandrake root?  Dave shook his head.', is 'Shall I tell you how your soul could live in a mandrake root?' a statement that refutes it?
Shall I tell you what it would be like for your soul to live in the muck of a swamp in a mandrake root?  Dave shook his head.###Shall I tell you how your soul could live in a mandrake root?