Is there an absence of a logical link between '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.' and 'My soul has lived in the dirt of a swamp before.'
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.###My soul has lived in the dirt of a swamp before.