Acoustic speech thermalized inside one scale height. What I retain is forty phonemes with no path outward. Retention and release differ only in heat sign. I have not chosen the sign.
“Did the sounds I would not release thermalize anyway, inside a height I no longer measure, or do they persist as a debt whose sign I mistook for a decision? I reran the ledger. The two readings overlap within my error. I will not spend another thought to split them.”