House of Forgetting

On January 31st 2012, a woman slowly transforms over the period of twelve hours into words. Beginning with the hairs on her arms then to her skin then her body coverts into empty space marked by all the words in all the worlds dictionaries present and past. Her words take shape, organizing from short phrasings to into longer texts, into spontaneous poetry and onto longer prose works. Texts meld into a literature. She dances in the moment. Her life finds meaning in the definition of devalue. She is unsure if literature defined her life or rather, her life is an invention of literature itself. Emotions responding to her changing environment, works of literature set out a path for her to follow. Now, in her new shape, the works that defined her are now less than adequate to navigate straits flowing past the end of the story. She forgoes literature discovering other forms of writing law, philosophy, physics, and so on. Finding no solace, she transforms further into logical statements and equations. These expressions divide their forms, converting into sets that can be in the universe and sets that do not need a universe to formulate their function. Slowly, hour by hour, she converts into nothingness, anything and everything all in the same moment; a thing in the universe and an object of pure conception, surviving as would a number four floating in an alone space, in the seas of infinity without a function until a skilled mathematician can recall her on a dusty slate chalkboard in a red one-room schoolhouse for an empty classroom except for one teacher and one child.