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Nicholas Boothman
FIELD NOTES — THE WORD THAT WILL
NOT BE SPOKEN
Hypothesis: A word exists that cannot be uttered
without losing power. It is not a sound. It is a
behavior. It becomes audible only after it has been
done. It is the God Word’s shadow — truth that
refuses performance.
Method: Live it first. Name it last.
Result: The word is…
The line after “Result” was blank. Then five
dots. Then an entry code.
Henry exhaled. “He couldn’t write it.”
Rita said softly, “Or he wouldn’t. Because to
write it would be to empty it.”
Carolina navigated to the file index. Behind the
entry was an audio clip five seconds long. No
waveform, only a flat line. She played it. The
speakers emitted the sound Henry had learned to
trust: absence that isn't empty — the silence of a
body deciding.
Sera closed her eyes. “He recorded a choice.”
3. The Test
Rita gestured to a low circle of chairs beneath a
ceiling fan that patted the air kindly. “We test
words here,” she said. “The unsaid, the nearly-said,
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