Is '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.' in direct disagreement with the statement 'Shall I send your soul into a mandrake root?'
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 send your soul into a mandrake root?