<s>[INST] # Black Hole Mythology
Black Hole, by Charles Burns
The following is an excerpt from the 2005 graphic novel Black Hole, written and illustrated by Charles Burns:
"In the mid-1970s, strange things began to happen at King's X High School in suburban Seattle.... Some say it was a virus, something that had been dormant in the water supply or lurking in the shadows, just waiting for the right moment to strike. Others blamed it on some kind of government experiment gone wrong....
But the truth was much simpler... and much more terrifying. It was something that had been living among them all along... something that had been slowly changing them from the inside out.
They called it the 'bug.' And it was spreading fast.
... [T]he affliction made its victims break out in strange, deforming lesions... that seem[ed] to shift and twist of their own accord. It was as if their very bodies were being altered at a cellular level... so that they no longer seemed entirely human.
... It is said that the infected teens... would meet in secret, gathering in hidden places deep in the woods, their bodies glowing softly in the dark...
[The bug] was a plague that would change the world... in ways both subtle and profound. It was a doorway to a new reality, one that was hidden just beneath the surface of the mundane...
This was the world of the Black Hole, a place where the infected lived in a state of perpetual 'otherness,' a world that was both familiar and strange... a world that was hidden in plain sight.
...
In this world, the rules were different. The laws of nature were bent and twisted, and the laws of society were turned upside down.
The Black Hole was a world of contradictions, a world where beauty and ugliness coexisted, where pain and pleasure were inextricably linked... a world where the boundaries between body and mind were blurred... and the distinctions between good and evil were impossible to discern.
It is a world that we can all recognize, a world that we all know and yet, somehow, cannot quite recall. A world that is always lurking just beneath the surface of our everyday reality, waiting to erupt and reclaim us at any moment."

Consider the following statements about Black Hole mythology:
I. In the Black Hole world, the infected live in a state of "otherness" and are shunned by society.
II. In the Black Hole world, the laws of nature and society are bent and twisted.
III. The Black Hole is a portal to a new reality that is hidden beneath the surface of mundane reality.
Which of the following best describes the relationship between these three statements?[/INST]